Michael Segarty

The Cruel Fate of Peking Opera Master Zhou Xinfang (Part 2)

Rescued by their mother, Qiu Lilian, the children fled China at a young age and achieved great success abroad. Tragically, both their mother and father, Zhou Xinfang, met a cruel fate at the hands of the Cultural Revolution. Fourth daughter: Cai Ci — her mother Qiu Lilian secretly arranged her escape She was unaware of ...

Michael Segarty

Zhou Xinfang and his wife Qiu Lilian.

The Cruel Fate of Peking Opera Master Zhou Xinfang  (Part 1)

Peking Opera master Zhou Xinfang and his wife Qiu Lilian endured tragic ordeals and death brought upon them by the sordid Cultural Revolution. Qiu Lilian was from a wealthy family in Shanghai and was the leading socialite in that social circle. She had a premonition that a catastrophe would befall mainland China sooner or later. ...

Michael Segarty

Zhou Xinfeng.

There Were Prisoners in This World That Did Not Need to Be Guarded

Wang Jia was a native of Hejian Zhangwu (now Hejian County, Hebei). In the last years of the Sui Dynasty, Wang Jia served in the army in Qizhou. One year, he was sent to escort more than 70 exiled prisoners and their leader, Li Shen, to the capital. Prisoners share expressions of remorse According to ...

Michael Segarty

Prison shackles.

China’s Law Elites, Sages, and Luminaries Forgotten for 30 Years (Part 2)

We continue the intriguing story of the heroes from China who saved a priceless heritage from extinction and became the historic English-Chinese Dictionary of Anglo-American Law. China’s forgotten luminaries Mr. Sheng Zhenwei: Author and dean of Soochow University Sheng Zhenwei (1900-1997), the first Chinese dean of Soochow University and later the law school dean, authored ...

Michael Segarty

Lady Justice.

China’s Law Elites, Sages, and Luminaries Forgotten for 30 Years (Part 1)

It all began in 1993. Xue Bo graduated from the China University of Political Science and Law. One day, while searching for information on international law, he and his classmates suddenly realized that there was no applicable English-Chinese Anglo-American Law Dictionary.  Anglo-American law most often refers to a region in the Americas where English is the ...

Michael Segarty

The Soochow University School of Law.

12-Year-Old Labelled a ‘Child Rightist’ and Jailed for 7 Years

In a chaotic era where everything good has been turned on its head, there are bound to be many absurd stories.  A 12-year-old child, still in primary school, was accused and sentenced as a “child rightist” by the Communist Party of China (CCP) during their notorious “anti-rightist” rampage. He was thrown in prison for several ...

Michael Segarty

The CCP's 'Anti-Rightist' movement