Wei Jingsheng Foundation News and Article: A1451-W1049

魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号：A1451-W1049

Release Date: February 15, 2022

发布日：2022年2月15日

Topic: The Story of the Chained Woman -- Wei Jingsheng

标题：铁链女的故事 -- 魏京生

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The Story of the Chained Woman

-- Wei Jingsheng

The description and controversy about the Chained Woman as a mother of eight in Xuzhou City have been raging for some time. According to VOA reporter Ye Bing, the attention has surpassed the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing and is the hottest topic in Chinese society now. Why so? Because it is related to the Chinese people's basic life. This is a basic human rights issue that is happening around everyone, an issue that does not require advanced knowledge to understand, but also an issue that occurs when the government pretends not to see it. So it shakes everyone's heart.

Without a need to investigate, the common Chinese already knew that in a not so impoverished Xuzhou, there were 50,000 wives who were abducted and trafficked. This surprised foreigners and Chinese in the cities. It also caught Xi Jinping, who was focusing on the Winter Olympics, by surprise. The lesser ranked local officials who did not receive instructions from Xi made self-contradictory explanations which pushed the attention even higher. So in an effort to clean up for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and misguide the media, some people say that this is the result when imperial power does not go to the countryside. Dr. Ren Songlin in the United States retorted very succinctly: Family planning shows that the CCP rule is not the rule of imperial power, but the Western tradition reaching everyone down to the grassroots level. Why can't they see women abducted and trafficked? This is clearly an institutional pretense of not seeing.

A Chinese feminist group launched a rescue and support delivering operation. They broke through the blockade of the police and sent two bouquets of flowers to the woman in chains. But it was videotaped by CCTV as the care from the government. This action not only shocked people but also made people laugh. The CCP Secretary-General Xi Jinping, who deploys and directs everything by himself, was called as “a trafficker” of women by Ms. Yan Geling. Her names and posts were immediately deleted from the entire Internet in China, along with the disappearance of her famous novels. This action was indeed faster than the Xuzhou government.

Some friends criticized the CCP's family planning as the culprit. Immediately, there were elites who came out to argue for the CCP, saying that such kidnapping has been in existence in rural China since ancient times, and so on. In ancient times, there was an era of stealing brides, and now there is still a pretending to steal brides as the custom of ethnic minorities, and there are indeed buying and selling with marriages in poor rural areas. But China has been monogamous since ancient times, and modern laws even exclude concubines. This sophistry is not working. Instead, it is in line with the theory of polygamy in China by the pioneers of the May Fourth Movement. It was because people have read the novels by these May Fourth novelists and lost their minds.

Like Secretary-General Xi, Dr. Ren Songlin was also sent to the countryside for ten years. He made a correct analysis that there is a long-term phenomenon of buying and selling through marriages in extremely poor rural areas in China, which must be mixed with trafficking women. However, only when the ratio of males and females is seriously unbalanced due to the one-child policy imposed by the CCP, and a large number of single men exist in impoverished rural areas, does the abduction of women and children become a big business and a common phenomenon. The need to maintain stability makes local officials pretend to be unable to see all of it, making this crime an act that is protected by the officials.

In the past, there was indeed a phenomenon of shared-wives in impoverished areas in northern China, which was called “fraternity”. There are also polyandry and polygamy systems in Tibet, including the promotion of the female slaves to concubines in ancient China, all of which are methods to solve social problems between men and women. Due to the precepts of Christianity, the West has to use the method of the First Girlfriend of the President to legitimize this issue.

Since the beginning of human society, the institution of marriage is one of the most important institutional issues. Monogamy, like many beautiful ideals in ancient times, needs to be reconciled with real problems. This is an issue that has been pondered by the theoretical circle for many years and is worthy of discussion. But to use it to justify the systematic rape of young girls and the criminal acts of kidnapping and trafficking women and children is really inferior. Except for the intellectual elite who flattered Secretary-General Xi, who can say something like that? However, not only Chinese elites, but also some elites in the United Nations and the West are competing with these inferiors.

Due to the nonsense of the elites from the May Fourth Movement, after the CCP came to power, they boasted about liberating women and practicing monogamy. In fact, it was the introduction of the Western religious system, which is stricter and more absolute than the traditional Chinese monogamy. This did not liberate the Chinese women at all, but made them the tool for communism without choice. Is this called liberation?

The liberation of women, like the liberation of all people in China, requires legal protection of human rights, the freedom to choose a way of life, the power to supervise the government, and the right to express opinions. Only a democratic system can do this, although it is, and may never be, perfect.

(This English version is translated by Ciping HUANG, without any compensation. Wei Jingsheng and the Wei Jingsheng Foundation appreciate her decades of contribution, especially for allowing the use and distribution of her translations of these commentaries.)

Original link of the commentary broadcasted by Radio Free Asia:

https://www.rfa.org/mandarin/pinglun/weijingsheng/wjs-02142022091522.html

To hear Mr. Wei Jingsheng's related commentary, please visit:

http://www.weijingsheng.org/RFA/RFA2022/WeiJS220213onChainedWoman.mp3

(Written and recorded on February 13, 2022. Broadcasted by Radio Free Asia on January 14, 2022.)

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Wei Jingsheng Foundation News and Article: A1451-W1049

魏京生基金会新闻与文章发布号：A1451-W1049

Release Date: February 15, 2022

发布日：2022年2月15日

Topic: The Story of the Chained Woman -- Wei Jingsheng

标题：铁链女的故事 -- 魏京生

Original Language Version: Chinese (Chinese version at the end)

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铁链女的故事

-- 魏京生

关于徐州八孩铁链女的描述和争议，已经沸沸扬扬一段时间了。按照美国之音记者叶兵的说法，关注度已经超过冬奥会，是中国社会上最热的话题。为什么如此呢？因为它关系到人们的基本生活。这是就在你的周围发生的基本人权问题，不是需要高深学问才能理解的问题，又是在政府假装看不见下发生的问题。所以才会震动大家的心灵。

老百姓不需要调查，就发现在一个不那么贫困的徐州，竟然有五万妇女是被拐卖的媳妇。让外国人和城市里的中国人大跌眼镜。也让专注于冬奥会的习近平措手不及，让地方小官员们得不到一尊先生的指示，自相矛盾的解释让热度不断升高。于是有人为党国洗涤带风向说，这是皇权不下乡的原因。美国的任松林博士反驳得很干脆：计划生育说明共产党的统治不是皇权统治，是下到基层每一个人的西方传统。怎么就看不见拐卖妇女呢？这显然是制度性的假装看不见。

中国的女权组织发起了营救和送温暖行动，突破了警察的封锁，给铁链女送去了两束花。被中央电视台摄成是政府的关怀。跌破眼镜之后还让人笑掉大牙。亲自部署、亲自指挥的小习书记，被严歌苓女士说了一句习近平就是拐卖妇女的人贩子，马上被全网删帖，甚至连她的小说也看不见了。这个动作倒是比徐州政府快。

有朋友抨击中共的计划生育是罪魁祸首。马上有精英出来替党狡辩，说什么中国农村自古就有等等。远古时代曾经有抢亲的时代，现在还有少数民族假装抢亲的风俗，贫苦农村也确实有买卖婚姻。但中国自古以来就是一夫一妻制，近代法律甚至排除了养妾。这个狡辩太勉强了吧。倒是符合五四先锋们的中国一夫多妻制的理论。是看五四小说家的小说看昏了头。

和小习书记一样下乡十年的任松林博士做了正确的分析，极端贫困农村确实存在买卖婚姻的长期现象，其中必然掺杂拐卖妇女。但只有在计划生育政策导致男女比例严重失衡，贫困农村大量单身的形势下，拐卖妇女儿童才成为一桩大生意，普遍现象。维稳的需要让地方官们假装看不见，使这种犯罪成为官方保护的行为。

过去在北方贫困地区确实存在着共妻现象，叫做拉帮套。在西藏也有一妻多夫兼一夫多妻制度，包括中国古代把性女奴的地位提高为小妾，都是解决男女社会问题的方法。西方由于基督教的戒律，只好用总统第一女朋友的方法，来使得这个问题合法化。

自有人类社会以来，婚姻性制度就是一个最重要的制度问题。一夫一妻制和许多古代美好理想的问题一样，都需要和现实问题协调。这是一个理论界多年思考的问题，值得商榷。但把它拿来替制度性的强奸幼女、替绑架拐卖妇女儿童的犯罪行为辩护，也过于下三滥了吧。除了拍小习书记马屁的知识精英，谁能说的出口？不光中国的精英，联合国和西方的某些精英，也和下三滥们有得一拼。

由于五四精英们的胡说八道，共产党上台后就可以吹嘘什么解放妇女，实行一夫一妻制。其实就是把西方的宗教制度引进来，比中国传统的一夫一妻制严苛、绝对了一些而已。这丝毫没有解放妇女，倒是让妇女没有选择地成为共产主义的螺丝钉。这叫解放吗？

妇女的解放，和中国所有人的解放一样，要有人权的法律保障，要有选择生活方式的自由，要有监督政府的权力，要有发表意见的权利。只有民主制度，才能够做到这些，虽然它现在，而且可能永远也不会十全十美。

(本评论的英文版本由黄慈萍翻译。魏京生和魏京生基金会感谢她数十年来有关的无偿贡献，特别是使用和发布此译文的许可。)

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