When fund-raising is a crime
A death sentence for a young businesswoman chills entrepreneurs
IN THE odd way these things work in China, word has trickled out that on April 7th an appeal court in Zhejiang, a famously entrepreneurial coastal province, conducted a five-hour hearing on a death sentence handed down to Wu Ying, a prominent 29-year-old businesswoman, on fraud charges. Before her arrest Ms Wu had seemed to personify the miraculous business success that could be achieved by people from even the most humble background in modern China.
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline "When fund-raising is a crime"
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