Battered women in China could finally get a measure of legal protection

After facing domestic abuse by her husband, Li Yang, Kim Lee filed a police report in 2011 and later won a domestic violence case. Her story is one of the two cases that contributed to a landmark new domestic violence law that China plans to pass. (J H Photo/Imagine China)

By Simon Denyer-March 6 at 3:30 AM

BEIJING — China stands on the verge of passing a landmark new domestic violence law, a victory decades in the making that owes much to the extraordinary, and very different, stories of two battered women whose suffering helped prompt a national debate.
Battered Women in China Could Finally Get a Measure of Legal Protection by Thavam Ratna