Every country has its media heroes, those who successfully fight the system against all odds. The smiling, energetic woman I spoke to in a small Chinese restaurant in Central could be a Chinese incarnation. She is the managing editor of Caijing, China's hardest hitting business magazine, and the inheritor of a long tradition of solitary protest against a system which often favours insiders.
In modern China, she and her team of 30 journalists represent a lone and often embattled voice in protecting China's 66 million retail investors against the widespread fraud and corruption which infest the Chinese stock markets.
Caijing appears twice a month with a circulation fluctuating between 50,000 and 100,000 and has an...
