Introduction

In locked down shanghai, a shadow pandemic of domestic violence. In that role, i work with victims as they go through the protracted and often painful process of seeking protection and justice from a system that still treats spousal abuse as a family matter. Faced with official inaction, i decided to do whati could on my own. This was easier said than done. My first task was to find her. I'd only just moved into the building a few months prior like most shanghai residents before the lock down, i barely knew my neighbors. The police were just pushing their responsibility on to us, she wrote back in the next morning. Of course they can enter the