That may not sound like revolutionary parenting advice , but as yin jianli , the book 's author has found , it has struck a chord with many chinese parents as just that .
One of the worst examples : the case of a 51-year-old chinese man li jianli who , according to the state-run beijing youth daily , was beaten so brutally by an anti-japanese mob for driving a japanese car that he 's now partially paralyzed and can barely utter simple words like " thank you " and " hungry . "