These are images that shocked the Chinese. We see a mother living in chains, a padlock around her neck like a slave, in deplorable conditions.. Posted at the end of January, just before the start of the Beijing Olympics. Chinese authorities initially tried to censor the video, to no avail. Images have circulated on the Internet quickly becoming viral and causing a real shock wave in the country as the scene seems to illustrate practices from another age.
The woman is toothless, hanging from a wall by a metal chain, a padlock along her throat. Four billion people saw this video and found out about this woman who was given eight children aged 2 to 23. Victim of a massive traffic of slave wives, bought, tied, locked up, impregnated.
The regime is trying to control comments on social networks by deleting the most criticalbut struggles to curb the spread and put a veil on an ancestral practice in the poorest remote countryside of the country.
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