“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…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.”

Kim Lee’s case first came to light in 2011 when she bravely posted photographs of her heavily bruised head and knees online.

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One can only hope that this momentum will continue to build and that this case will cause a ripple on how domestic violence is seen in China. According to a 2011 report, 25% of married women in China have experienced domestic abuse.

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