Beaten but unbowed

摘要

In 2006, when she was seven months pregnant, Kim Lee was kicked so hard in the abdomen by her husband that she needed hospital treatment. Such domestic violence, though shocking, is not uncommon in China. Around a quarter of Chinese women have experienced domestic abuse, according to the All China Women's Federation (acwf), a state-controlled ngo, but experts say the real figure is probably much higher. Concerns about losing family "face" mean many incidents go unreported, and few offenders are ever punished. What makes Ms Lee different is that she is a white American. Her husband is Li Yang, the celebrity founder of Crazy English, a wildly popular English-language training institute, which encourages students to learn English by shouting it at the top of their voices.