How to describe twenty two-year old MSN Spaces blogger Zeng Jinyan [1]? A threat to national security? An AIDS activist who brings support, joy and hope to countless AIDS orphans? A young wife [2] radicalized [3] after her husband [4]was kidnapped by the state for over a month [5]? Patron spokesblogger for otherwise voiceless victims of injustice within China's social justice circles? A post today [6][zh] tells that the 13 year-old daughter of mainland human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng [7], following a recent stretch of house arrest, has slipped away from the twenty cops guarding her house.
Renowned liberal writer and blogger Yu Shicun [8] 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 [9] to four years in prison, about whom Zeng frequently writes:
——给金燕：我们时代的圣女 [10]
Jinyan [11], 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
Wasn't careful and caught a Siberian cold
Wrapped up, choked, she read the scriptures for relief
In the end converted with fixed conviction
Rightly held her clothes in place
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
And not yet finished speaking, danced along with the wind
Bitter, alone and unaided, she came into China's legacy
Bull ghosts and snake gods frenzied with envy
The squall blew onlookers away like falling leaves
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
Villians bring sneak attacks against her, beg her to change her tune
I'm only being human, she says
When sinners accusing innocents has become part of the scenery
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
She sees AIDS orphans’ eyes and praises
She sees a blind man's heroism and cries inside
At this moment, she picks flowers for all to see, smiling knowingly
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
Martyr of Chinese! She just wants a good life
A good life for Chinese women
Works hard to learn English
Things not said in English
Happen and many people don't even know
2006年8月14日北京
Beijing