Then, last autumn, Science News, a Chinese-language magazine of which Fang Xuanchang was then executive editor, devoted two issues to articles questioning the safety and efficacy of the Xiao procedure using as a source Fang Shimin's lawyer Peng Jian, a man with no scientific or medical background.

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Revelations about his response to medical problems have marked him out as a man of strong character, which has been so much in question because of widely publicized accounts of compulsive womanizing.

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Women are treated as legal minors and often must have a man's permission to leave their homes, seek medical care, participate in public life, study, go to government offices and courts or even make decisions for their children.

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