This story was recently referred to by famous social commentator Yu Hua (餘華) in his op-ed piece for the New York Times regarding online censorship in China called “對不起，原文已經被刪除”.

You can read both the Mandarin and English versions of his interesting op-eds side by side here: 

http://cn.nytimes.com/opinion/20140207/c07yu/dual/

Thanks for the amazing website Kendra!
GD