Takezo lay among the corpses. There were thousands of them. "The whole world's gone crazy," he thought dimly. "A man might as well be a dead leaf, floating in the autumn breeze."
The use of the passive voice in this respect is not unique to China. For example, "dehoused" was a WWII Allied term to describe Germans whose homes were destroyed by Allied bombs.
Takezo lay among the corpses. There were thousands of them. "The whole world's gone crazy," he thought dimly. "A man might as well be a dead leaf, floating in the autumn breeze."