Violent footage shocks China, exposes the prevalence of domestic violence

A survey conducted by the All-China Women's Federation in 2011 showed that about one in four women had suffered physical or verbal abuse, or had their freedoms restricted by their partners

The husband and wife were alone in her boutique, but the security cameras captured it all: him pushing her down, punching her, slapping her and dragging her by the hair across the floor.

In footage from last year that recently circulated online, he can be seen hauling her into another room. Minutes later, the woman — her hair flailing — plummets from the second floor onto the street below in the central Chinese city of Shangqiu. The woman, Liu Zengyan, said later it was the only way she could escape.

As she lay in the hospital after the assault, with fractures in