{"id":46112,"date":"2015-03-21T20:46:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-21T20:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=46112 "},"modified":"2015-03-21T20:46:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-21T20:46:00","slug":"46112-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=46112","title":{"rendered":"Chinese \\’barefoot lawyer\\’ escaped house arrest using bat-like echolocation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In his new book, Chen Guangcheng writes that he used echoes to navigate his way to freedom<\/div>
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Chen Guangcheng escaped after being kept under house arrest for 20 mo<\/div>
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It was a mystery that led many to question whether it was even possible: how did a totally blind Chinese dissident escape unaided from house arrest in a village in northeastern China from under the noses of dozens of local guards?<\/div>
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Now Chen Guangcheng, popularly known as the “Barefoot Lawyer”, has revealed that he escaped using a “bat-like echolocation” technique to navigate his way more than a mile to a neighbouring village and the safety of a friend’s home.<\/div>
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• Real life ‘Bat man’ uses echoes to navigate without sight<\/div>
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“I drew on an old skill I had developed when I was three or four years old, a kind of bat-like echolocation,” he writes in his new memoir, ‘The Barefoot Lawyer’, which is published this week.<\/div>
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“By making just the slightest ‘shhhh’ sound, no louder than a light wind in a pine tree, I could determine from the returning sound waves what was in front of me, whether large object or wall, forest or field.<\/div>
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“I hissed under my breath and listened carefully to the patter of the raindrops for clues about what surfaces were ahead of and around me.”<\/div>
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Mr Chen, 43, caused an international diplomatic incident when he took refuge in the US embassy in Beijing in the spring of 2012, forcing Hillary Clinton, the then secretary of state, into last-minute negotiations for his safe passage to the United States.<\/div>
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Now living in Washington DC and working as a fellow in human rights at the Witherspoon Institute, a Princeton-based think-tank, Mr Chen recalled his bat-like skills in a breathless account of his escape from the village of Dongshigu in Shandong Province on the night of April 20 2012.<\/div>
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Aided by his wife, Weijing, the 43-year-old lawyer waited for nearly 12 hours after first climbing on to the roof of his house, crossing a neighbour’s yard and crawling through three goat pens before – finally – reaching the edge of the heavily guarded village.<\/div>
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