SOCIETY

Digital Babysitters: Battling Phone Addiction in China’s Rural Schools

The growth of cellphone addiction among China’s “left-behind” children and the researchers and teachers fighting against it

SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE
HEALTH

Growing Pains: What’s Behind China’s Obsession With Height?

Faced with still-rampant height discrimination in society, Chinese parents go to great lengths to make their kids tall

SUBSCRIBER EXCLUSIVE
SOCIETY

Kinder Cities: Can China Make Urban Life Friendly for Children?

How China is reimagining its urban landscape from the perspective of its youngest residents

LANGUAGE

Choice Chengyu: Kid Talk

Idioms about youngsters and youth

HEALTH, NEWS

Recipe for Obesity

China takes world’s lead in child obesity, but it’s unclear who’s to blame

ARTS

Child Star Power

The fate of some of China’s most famous child stars in the last 30 years