"The Self-Salvation Era" Series: A Nation of Few by a Great Power

Author: Lu Yuegang
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Publish Date: 1998-03-01
Features: A bottle of concentrated sulfuric acid turned Wu Fang into a "ghost," a tragic and horrifying event: On April 26, 1988, a tragic night. The gate was left open, with multiple people participating in the violence, and a crowd gathered to watch without rescuing anyone. The judicial authorities failed to handle the case effectively, exonerating the criminals, leaving the case shrouded in mystery. The case dragged on for three years without resolution, as it involved the second son of a deputy mayor and Fenghuo Village, a "model of spiritual civilization" in Shaanxi. Wu Fang endured intense physical and mental pain, persistently filing complaints for three years. The Deputy Director of the Municipal People's Congress rose and condemned the "inhumanity," exercising the power of intervention by the People's Congress, leading to the execution of one criminal and the imprisonment of another. Wu Fang remained dissatisfied, believing that some suspects involved in the crime were still at large. With extraordinary perseverance, she relentlessly pursued justice for eight years. Wu Fang experienced a transformation from life to "death" and then back to "life," demonstrating an incredible vitality that created miracles, leaving people in awe. Fenghuo Village showed clear favoritism, burying the criminals with honor and treating their families well, forcing Wu Fang to flee her homeland. The acid mutilation case exposed a history that was both familiar and unfamiliar to people. The author traced the eight-year Wu Fang case back to the over forty-year history of Fenghuo Village.