Tormented Deng protected precious chastity at all costs

Of all the monikers heaped on Deng Yujiao, "lie nu" is the most popular.

My Chinese-English dictionary defines lie nu as "a women who dies in the defense of her chastity". Deng is not dead. But without unanimous and overwhelming public support, she could have been.

After stabbing one official to death and injuring another, she was originally to be charged with"voluntary manslaughter".