This post has been updated with a link to the original Chinese commentary. See below.

China's Economic Observer decided this weekend to publish a hard-hitting special report on the previous week's high-speed train collision near the city of Wenzhou, defying strict orders from propaganda authorities in Beijing to play down coverage of the accident.

While many other newspapers obediently killed reports and took the train collision off their front pages in response to Friday night's order, the Economic Observer devoted eight pages to its special report, entitled "No Miracles in Wenzhou," and promoted it on its front page with a striking illustration showing the logo for the Ministry of Railways superimposed over a black-and-white photo of one of the ruined trains.

Beneath that image was an equally striking commentary on the accident titled "Yiyi, When You've Grown Up." The commentary, which takes the government to task for its opaque handling of the accident, it written as a letter to Xiang Weiyi, a 2-year-old girl whose "miraculous" rescue has been widely trumpeted in state media.

Excerpts from that essay, translated by China Real Time:

UPDATE: The commentary in its original Chinese appears to have been removed from the Economic Observer's website. Phoenix News has reproduced it here.

UPDATE 2: While some links to the commentary on the Economic Observer site have been broken, an editor at the newspaper has pointed out to China Real Time that it is still available here.

-- Josh Chin. Follow him on Twitter @joshchin