Chinese woman reunites with family 22 years after running away over broken shower gel bottle

A woman in eastern China has been reunited with her birth family 22 years after running away as a child, fearing punishment for breaking a bottle of shower gel. Liu Xiuhong, from a rural family in Ganzhou, Jiangxi province, was nine years old when she moved with her migrant-worker parents to Jieyang, Guangdong province, where they lived in a cramped rented room, according to the mainland outlet Shicheng Media. While playing at a friend’s home in 2004, Liu accidentally smashed a glass bottle o...

By Zoey Zhang