Life of Guangzhou - Sexual Harassment Claim Goes Online

A Shenzhen woman has opened a blog to denounce a foreigner for sexually harassing her.

The woman, 30, identified as Wang, who has an art gallery in Beijing, made public the name of the foreigner’s employer, a well-known auto joint venture in Beijing. She also made public text messages and pornographic photos the man sent her on her English blog site on Sina.com.

“Fight for dignity. Say no to sexual harassments!” Wang wrote on her blog.

Wang said her nightmare began in May 2005. She was having a cup of coffee at Starbucks when a foreigner approached and started a conversation with her. Introducing himself by a Chinese name, Feng Delai, he said he was 53 and worked for a Beijing representative office of an auto company.

He told Wang, who is single, that he had three children, but had an unhappy marriage and was in a “cold war” with his wife.

Wang said Feng had impressed her as scholarly and gentlemanly and over the next few days they became friends. One day Wang went to visit Feng but he would not let her into his apartment.

“I asked him why and was told there was another woman in bed inside,” Sunday’s Southern Metropolis Daily quoted Wang as saying.

Wang left in a huff and ended the friendship.

But things did not end there. Wang said she received incessant short messages in pornographic language from Feng, who even sent her via MSN a photo of Feng and his French girlfriend having sex.

Wang called Feng to ask for a face-to-face apology. When he refused, Wang filed a formal complaint with Feng’s company but was ignored. Wang then took Feng to court.

Feng stood trial at Chaoyang District People’s Court on Aug. 8, 2006, claiming that, since he was a foreigner, he did not come within the jurisdiction of a district court.

Feng then fled back to his country at the end of that year to escape further trial, Wang said.

Feng’s company said Feng had been laid off since “he had not gone to work for a long time and had not given a reason.”

“The manager told me he could do nothing for me since Feng refused to come back to China,” Wang said. “But I won’t let the case go.”

However, Wang’s lawyer was pessimistic, saying Feng was not in China so it was impossible to bring him to trial. (By Li Jing)