In a Beijing court last weekend, an American named Kim Lee made Chinese legal history. She was granted a divorce on grounds of domestic violence, an issue widely overlooked in China, and the court issued a three-month restraining order against her husband that the state media described as unprecedented. Her ex-husband is China’s most famous English teacher, Li Yang, whom I wrote about five years ago, when the couple was touring the country, teaching to crowds of thousands.
The judgment was a victory not only for Kim Lee and her three daughters, but also for advocates of the rule of law on behalf of China’s often-silenced victims of domestic violence. “All of society was paying attention,” Guo Jianmei, a prominent lawyer told the reporter Didi Kirsten Tatlow, after the ruling. “We’ve been waiting for this for a long time.”
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