Fist fight in a Chinese Newsroom

July 2, 2007 is the most embarrassing day of my entire professional career so far.  It was really really embarrassing!   I had a fight with a newcomer at the newspaper named Liu Aixiang.  I did not win and I ended up breaking the glass door on the bookshelf of the chief editor!  That was embarrassing.  I did not win and I was beaten by a quasi-illiterate person!

After this meeting was over, this woman named Liu Aiqiang from the Stock News Department charged at me to start a fight! When the meeting was finished, I had just gotten up and started to walk exit. Liu Aiqiang showed up only during the last few minutes of the meeting and she sat with the man named Han Fuheng from her department near by the door. As I started to exit, this Liu Aixiang slapped me in the face and knocked me dizzy! When I oriented myself, she came at me again. I slapped her back but a rookie male reporter unfairly pulled me back so that I missed. Instead, Liu Aiqiang hit me in the face again. A group of people tried to mediate but they were only just putting on a show. So that was how I and Liu Aiqiang were wrestling with each other. But she was bigger and stronger than me and she kicked me a few times in the belly! Still, I managed to slap her in the face as well as give her a punch. I also scratched her in the face with my nails. But my colleagues told me later that my blows were weak and I left no marks on her face. Instead, her slap caused my face to swell under the eye.