China Passes First Domestic Violence Law
Over the weekend, the Chinese government passed the country’s first ever national anti-domestic...
by Cindy | Dec 28, 2015
Over the weekend, the Chinese government passed the country’s first ever national anti-domestic...
by Sophie Beach | Mar 9, 2015
At least ten women’s rights activists were detained on Friday and Saturday in Beijing,...
by Sophie Beach | Nov 26, 2014
After years of campaigning by women’s rights activists, the State Council has drafted the...
by Natalie Ornell | Apr 11, 2014
An excerpt from journalist and scholar Leta Hong Fincher’s upcoming book Leftover...
by Samuel Wade | Feb 27, 2014
The New York Times’ Didi Kirsten Tatlow describes the campaign for better legal protections...
by Sophie Beach | Jan 30, 2014
American Kim Lee was married to “Crazy English” entrepreneur and celebrity Li Yang...
by Sophie Beach | Feb 12, 2013
Kim Lee, an American who was married to celebrity English teacher Li Yang, has become the public face for women fighting domestic violence in China. When Lee won her divorce case, after publicizing photos of her brutalized face,...
by Sophie Beach | Feb 6, 2013
Two recent cases, with very different conclusions, have again shone light on the problem of domestic violence in China. The existence of marital abuse is only beginning to be acknowledged in Chinese society, and is often...
by Samuel Wade | Feb 4, 2013
Kim Lee, the American wife of Crazy English founder Li Yang, was awarded a 12 million yuan divorce settlement by a Beijing court on Sunday. Li must pay an additional 100,000 yuan per year for each of their three daughters until...
by Josh Rudolph | Aug 17, 2012
A new round of divorce hearings between Li Yang, the founder of a controversial and high-decibel English education program, and Kim Lee, his battered American wife, began last week. Last year, Lee posted pictures of the injuries...
by Sophie Beach | Apr 21, 2012
Kim Lee, the American wife of celebrity English teacher Li Yang, has become the focus of media attention in China after she used her weibo account to publicize evidence that her husband had brutally beaten her. AP reports on how...
by Scott Greene | Nov 7, 2011
The estranged wife of celebrity English teacher Li Yang, who in September accusing her husband of brutally assaulting her, has posted a new photo depicting her injuries alongside several entries on her Sina Weibo account,...