The Epoch Times
Aug 6, 2010
By Chen Yilian & Wen Hua

Liang Yijing was 22 years old when her father was first imprisoned for petitioning against local government corruption in 2005. After an expensive lawsuit and numerous illegal jailings, Liang decided to take her case to the Internet. Since then, their lives took a turn for the better, when she became among the top 10 Internet celebrities in China. Liang tells The Epoch Times about her transition from an ordinary post-80s generation girl to an anti-corruption Internet blogger.

When she was 14, Liang Yijing dropped out of school to help with her father Liang Maorong’s business in their hometown of Lingbi County in China’s eastern province of Anhui. She opened a restaurant when she was 20 and is currently the owner of a cosmetic shop in Wenzhou City in China’s southeastern province of Zhejiang.

It all started in 1992, when an enterprise founded by the Gaolou Township government in Lingbi County borrowed money a number of times from the Liang family. They borrowed a total of 240,000 yuan (approximately US$35,432), wrote a promissory note, and promised to pay it back with interest. However, after a few years of delay, the town government changed leaders and refused to pay the debt, saying that the enterprise was bankrupt.

Liang Yijing says that the amount of money that they lent was trivial to the lawsuit expenses of over one million yuan (US$147,634) they’ve spent over the past 15 years. So why did they continue with the lawsuit?

“When we asked them to pay the debt, they refused in a vile manner. We weren’t going to give in, so we sued them. As the situation intensified, my father’s business experienced financial losses and my parents divorced. However, all this is unimportant; we just want justice.”    more …