“I used to enjoy having dinner with my friends, but since my son died, I no longer want to go,” says Wang, a woman in her early 60s who lost her only child in a car accident four years ago. “People my ...

“Both my husband and I were youths in Mao Zedong’s era,” says 63-year-old Wang Aiying. “We abided by the Party’s words, answered the Party’s call of duty and supported the Party’s policy.” Among other ...

Every day after his morning fitness routine, 73-year-old Zhao finds an excuse to break away from his exercise group, then travels nearly 3 kilometers on foot to visit his son’s grave. The elderly ...

When Qu Di left for the United States in 2007 for a PhD program, her mother was certain that she would return. Qu, a 25-year-old math major, dreamed of being a university professor in her home ...

The English language has no term to describe a parent whose child has died. When fathers and mothers die, their children are called orphans. When a husband or wife dies, the spouse left behind is a ...

In an attempt to “discipline student behaviors, make them manage time more rationally and improve the efficiency of their studies,” a K-12 public school in Huhehot, Inner Mongolia has decided to ...