Recently, a student in Anhui rushed over to help a fallen elderly woman but the later held the young girl to be responsible for her fall. This again triggered a debate on the Internet: why is it so hard to be a Samaritan in China. It reminds me another infamous incident a few years earlier.… Continue reading Why is it so hard to be a Samaritan in China

UN Women: Press China to Protect, Not Persecute, Women Rights Defenders (Network of Chinese Human Rights Defenders – September 16, 2015) CHRD is concerned that the Chinese government is to co-host a world summit with UN Women on gender equality and women’s empowerment, at a time when women human rights defenders and NGOs are facing… Continue reading UN Women: Press China to Protect not to Persecute Women Rights Defenders

This Sunday, I went on a boxer rebellion walking tour to the old Legation Quarter – where the embassies used to be. The boxer Rebellion, an anti-imperialist uprising by a group of mythical rebels, took place during the end of the Qing Dynasty. In the dreadful summer of1900, the legation quarter was under siege for… Continue reading Boxer Rebellion Walking Tour

http://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1856622/aung-san-suu-kyis-former-aide-ma-thida-prison-hopes-myanmar Aung San Suu Kyi’s former aide Ma Thida on prison, hopes for Myanmar, and The Lady Lijia Zhang When Dr Ma Thida was released from Yangon’s Insein Prison, in 1999, she thanked her jailers. "I had always wanted to write a prison memoir, just like some of my activist friends had done," says the… Continue reading My piece in South China Morning Post’s Sunday Magazine about Suu Kyi’s former aid Ma Thida