The Xuzhou mother-of-eight who appeared in a viral video shackled and chained in a freezing shed now has a name and a hometown … or does she? On Thursday, the authorities in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, reported that the woman...
China’s State Council has unveiled a series of proposals aiming to protect the estimated 61...
The deaths—by suicide, violent attack, or apparent accident—of children in rural areas have...
At Aeon, James Palmer examines the lives of disabled Chinese, and attitudes towards them in the...
For Reuters, Li Hui and Ben Blanchard report that under a new scheme of “baby hatches”...
Recent Reuters reports exposing “America’s underground market for adopted...
CNN World reports that overseas adoptions have declined globally in recent years due to...
China’s central government announced on Tuesday that individuals and groups who find abandoned children cannot privately adopt them. From the Associated Press: The new rules say people wanting to adopt must go through...
Amid concerns about childrens’ safety due to recent traffic accidents involving children and knife attack at a primary school, the BBC reports a fire at an orphanage in Henan has left seven children dead: Four children...
Research-China.org has posted a translation of an article in Fenghuang Weekly about human trafficking through orphanages in Hunan Province. This translation is the second in a series of reports about the scandal. The first article is available here. From the second installment: The mother of Duan Meilin, Chen Yejin, had previously worked at a welfare […]
From A Beerist’s monologue blog (in Chinese, at blog.sina.com BLOG: translated by CDT): “Above there is Heaven; on earth there is Hangzhou and Suzhou.” A few days ago, I was on my way to meet a friend in...
A migrant worker selling her son in front of a McDonald, via boxun.com.
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