The Anguish of China’s Left Behind Children
James Burke | Vision Times Over 60 million children in rural China have been left behind by their parents who have moved to cities for work. The effects of this on rural communities has been devastating. The Chinese government’s current household registration system, known as hukou, makes it extremely difficult for migrant workers to take […]
As the School Year Begins, Chinese Dissidents’ Children Are Left Out in the Cold
Goh Fung and Hai Nan | Radio Free Asia As millions of Chinese schoolchildren and college students were back in class at the start of the new academic year on Monday, the children of some dissidents and critics of the ruling Chinese Communist Party continue to be denied access to education, activists told RFA. Grassroots […]
Award-Winning Guerilla Documentary Highlights Officials’ Rape of Children in China
Sarah Le | Epoch Times LOS ANGELES—Filmmaker Nanfu Wang, based in New York City, filmed her first feature documentary in China on a trip to visit a provocative women’s rights activist nicknamed “Hooligan Sparrow.” She said that during that summer trip she was deeply shocked by the events she witnessed in her home country. “All I […]
11 Year Old Helps Schoolmates Quit the CCP- Part 1
A girl in my music class was talking to herself during class. The music teacher sent her outside to stand as punishment. The girl was standing alone and crying. I stood by her side, and told her: “Nowadays teachers have no love for us. It is all because of brainwashing by the Chinese communist party […]
The Deaths of Four Siblings Shines a Harsh Light on China’s 60 Million ‘Left-Behind’ Children
<!–[CDATA[This article by Jack Hu originally appeared on Global Voices on 17 June 2015 China’s gigantic economy isn’t the only thing making headlines around the globe. The country’s increasingly serious social problems are also drawing the world’s attention. Four siblings, a boy and three girls aged between 5 and 13, were found dead on June 9 in Bijie, a city […]
Chinese Netizens Reject Party’s Claim That Children Love Communism
<!–[CDATA[Leo Timm and Lu Chen | Epoch Times Throughout over sixty years of communist rule, hundreds of millions of Chinese children have joined the Communist Youth League or Communist Young Pioneers, upon entry to which the child pledges him or herself to a lifelong struggle for the sake of communism and the Communist Party. Despite the results […]