The number of lawyers in China has risen from a few thousand to 230,000 in the past 30 years.\u00a0However, in many places, licensed lawyers remain scarce. As a result, unofficial \"citizen representatives\", with little or no legal training, often fill the gap.<\/p>\n
One of these is Bian Guanghua. In the city of Zibo, in the eastern province of Shandong, Bian takes cases that many official lawyers won't or can't take<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Citizen Lawyer: Bian Guanghua The number of lawyers in China has risen from a few thousand to 230,000 in the past 30 years.\u00a0However, in many places, licensed lawyers remain scarce. As a result, unofficial \"citizen representatives\", with little or no legal training, often fill the gap. One of these is Bian Guanghua. In the city of Zibo, in the eastern Continue Reading<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stevenettleton.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Citizen-Lawyer-cropped-e1542423062918.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenettleton.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenettleton.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenettleton.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenettleton.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenettleton.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stevenettleton.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2228,"href":"https:\/\/stevenettleton.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions\/2228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenettleton.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenettleton.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenettleton.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenettleton.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}