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Mo Shaoping
Mo Shaoping (Chinese: 莫少平), is a Chinese lawyer who represented the imprisoned journalist Shi Tao, after the lawyer Guo Guoting. He also was a defense lawyer on the case of Liu Xiaobo. The founder of Beijing Mo Shaoping Law Firm, Mo Shaoping is also a member of the Human Rights and Constitutional Law Committee of the All China Lawyers Association. Specialized in criminal law, he and his cohort are known internationally for many politically sensitive cases, including that of Liu Xiaobo. He represents Liu Xiaobing's wife, Liu Xia, who has been held under house arrest with no access to Internet and nearly no visitors. See also *Human rights in the People's Republic of China Human rights in mainland China are periodically reviewed by the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC), on which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and various foreign governments and h ... References 20th-century Chinese lawyers 21st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mo (Chinese Surname)
The Chinese family name Mo (wikt:莫, 莫) is pronounced in Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin as "Mò" (4th tone), in Cantonese as "Mok6" (6th tone). The surname is often romanized as Mok where Cantonese speakers are prominent. According to a study of Mu Ying's Name record, the surname came to be when descendants of the antediluvian ruler Zhuanxu abbreviated the name of his city, Moyangcheng (莫陽城; in modern-day Pingxiang County, Hebei) and took it as their surname. As Chinese family names go, Mo is relatively rare, ranked 168th in the ''Hundred Family Surnames''. In 2004, there were an estimated 73,000 people with the surname of Mo abroad and 1,540,000 Mos in China. When not used as a surname, 'Mo' (莫) means 'do not'. Notable people Arts and culture *Mo Yan (莫言), real name Guan Moye (管谟业), Chinese author, Nobel laureate *Max Mok Siu-Chung (莫少聰), Hong Kong actor *Hoyan Mok (莫可欣), winner of Miss Hong Kong Pageant (1993) *Karen Mok (莫文蔚), Hong Kong s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
