Here is the true story of Zhu Ling, a female university student who mysteriously fell seriously ill in the campus, in the early 1990s period, Beijing. Her family and friends were understandably devastated and demanded to know why a perfectly healthy, intelligent young woman would suddenly fall ill to the point of losing most of her abilities to perform the tasks of basic self-care.
Slowly, it became clear that the young woman was poisoned by someone in her dorm.
What is difficult to understand was after the young woman fell ill, evidence mysteriously disappeared from her dorm room, police dropped the case claiming there was no lead to follow, the authority of Zhu Ling's university and her classmates were suspiciously indifferent to Zhu and her family's sufferings.
Suspicion began to focused on one of Zhu Ling's classmates, who is supposedly from a well connected family, and has a powerful grandfather. (It's also rumored that this suspect eventually immigrated to USA and enjoys her new life there. If it were true, I wish this person to just drop dead)
Two decades after Zhu Ling was poisoned, her family (her aged parents and an uncle) are still waiting for an answer (how heartbreakingly humble is their demand!), plus a small group of friends (one of them is a friend of Zhu from highschool, whose effort had once helped saving Zhu's life), reporters, concerned citizens and netizens from the internet were still calling out for justice both online and offline.
If nothing else, this piece of investigative writing reveals the chilling reality of the complete absence of justice (many online articles and dissuasion about this case have been deleted, for no good reason), compassion, an open law system and an independent police investigation; it also exposed the ugly deeds done by the suspect herself, by fellow university students (many of these people were very quick to defend the suspect's honor, whilst only playing lip-service to Zhu Ling's misfortune), the school's authority, the hospital and even policemen to cover up the truth and bury a victimized young woman alive.
Here is a Chinese article about Zhu Ling case and a newer case of a Chinese mainland student poisoned his roommate in USA: https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/54043479
Such a heartbreaking experience while reading this book. Hard to believe this is what happened in reality. When you realized this is the exact real thing happening in China and there is no hope of Justice over there. It's even more hard to believe tomorrow will be a better day for the regular people of China. Thank you very much, Jiajia, you did something a journalist should do, which is to bring all the facts together. I appreciate your hard work very much! ❤️
I strongly recommend to the next reader and pray more people be able to read it. Besides the donation, we could make, let more people know what happened to Ling Zhu and how much she and her parents are suffering is the best way, maybe the only way to support them.
Who tried to murder Ling Zhu has been cursed, as she said in her statement or email, and she very much deserves it.
A thorough record of Zhu Ling’s heartbreaking tragedy. Recent introduction of a 2018 paper studying on Zhu Ling’s hair has brought the case back into public attention in China. However, not long after gathering of people’s fury, many discussions over Zhu Ling were either blocked or deleted by several large forums — but clearly it’s impossible to clear everything nowadays. It can’t be more apparent who the criminal is, and why she still monitors and even tries to manipulate public opinions. No privilege lasts forever, no evil conceals without paying the price.
If you want to truly understand China and Chinese , Read this. You will understand most Chinese deserve whatever they are facing and suffering from in this country.