China: Patron saint of activist-bloggers? · Global Voices
John Kennedy

How to describe twenty two-year old MSN Spaces blogger Zeng Jinyan? A threat to national security? An AIDS activist who brings support, joy and hope to countless AIDS orphans? A young wife radicalized after her husband was kidnapped by the state for over a month? Patron spokesblogger for otherwise voiceless victims of injustice within China's social justice circles? A post today [zh] tells that the 13 year-old daughter of mainland human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, following a recent stretch of house arrest, has slipped away from the twenty cops guarding her house.
Renowned liberal writer and blogger Yu Shicun posted the following ode to Zeng to his blog this week, lauding her bravery and actions against the backdrop of silent acquiescence from the majority of China's public intellectuals—a group in which Yu caustically includes himself—and the sentence yesterday of blind female reproductive rights lawyer Chen Guangcheng to four years in prison, about whom Zeng frequently writes:
——给金燕：我们时代的圣女
Jinyan, the Lady Saint of our Times
圣人之后执拗地从南方跑来
一不小心感染了西伯利亚的风寒
她被裹挟、咳嗽，读经救济
最后她原地不动地皈依
抚正自己的衣冠
代圣立言者们感动了自己
话未说完随风舞蹈
她孤苦无助地成全汉地的秘法
牛鬼蛇神们嫉妒得发狂
狂风卷扫看客如落叶
多少人称赞她的美，劝她停步
罪恶也偷袭她，求她改辙
她说：我只是做一个人
罪人审控无罪成为大地上的风景
无数的汉语将她和我们隔离
她看见艾滋病孩子的眼睛就赞美
看见盲人的神性暗自落泪
此刻，她拈花示众，笑如般若
看客们远远地为十二月欢呼
汉语的烈士！她只想过好日子
中国女性的好日子
努力学习英语
没有用英语表达的事情
很多人不知道它的发生
2006年8月14日北京