A Chinese-American author has been censored on China’s internet after she published an article on WeChat, a Twitter-like Chinese social media platform, speaking about a Chinese mother’s plight. Yan Geling is known for her fiction depicting the hardships and struggles of females in China, only this time she wrote an article about a real-life tragedy in the country. In late January, a video ignited anger on Chinese social media, when it showed a middle-aged woman, wearing a light layer of clothing amid freezing winter temperatures, locked in a village shack and chained by her neck. In the video, the woman nods and shakes in response, but her answers are slurred and barely comprehensible. She is reportedly mentally ill and has given birth to at least eight children. Yan’s article titled “Mother, oh, Mother” was published on Feb. 6 on the WeChat account “Survivor’s Poetry,” but was soon removed from the …