Children of the Cultural Revolution poised for power
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Children turned on parents, students denounced their teachers and Chairman Mao Zedong proclaimed "To rebel is justified" -- the Cultural Revolution was a defining, if terrifying, experience for many Chinese.
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BEIJING, China -- Chinese state media Friday said it was crucial the ruling communist party adapt to social changes but gave few clues about an apparent power struggle as a secretive party plenum entered a second day.
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Three political  contenders indulge in low blows and spin, character  assassination and gestures of goodwill, all the while gauging  their standing with voters. The setting is not the U.S.  presidential campaign trail but a third-grade class at  Evergreen Primary School in Wuhan, China.
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The party of Mao is determined to maintain its power monopoly in a growing, restive society.
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As a growing economy produces new wealth and a spreading middle class in China, the epochal Cultural Revolution has receded to the distant past in just one generation.
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Stolen then brainwashed and forced to fight, children around the world are being turned into cold-blooded killing machines. Warlords target children as recruits because of their very vulnerability, treating them as no more than "cannon fodder," one child advocate says.
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However, the 14-year-old girl of the Yi ethnic minority group in Southwest China&#39;s Yunnan Province could not help but give a performance two weeks ago as she took part in a
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When President Hu Jintao opens the 17th  Chinese Communist Party congress on October 15, he will be  seeking to oust key rivals, name a successor and finally emerge  from the shadow of his once powerful predecessor, Jiang Zemin.
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CHANGZHOU, China -- Twelve years ago, five families from the Washington area came to this city in China's eastern Jiangsu province to adopt children. They found little girls to welcome into their worlds and, in doing so, joined a new generation of American families that had only recently begun to...
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MIANCHI, China -- Twice a week, just after school lets out in this small county in Henan province, a 13-year-old girl with a short bob and wide smile holds her parents' hands and walks two blocks down the street into the harsh fluorescent light of an emergency medical station.
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Children as young as five are learning a deep hatred as the power struggle between militias takes a disturbing new course
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HELSINKI, Sep 21 (IPS) - It was a new kind of dawn for some children around  the world Tuesday.
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Three political clans introduce the next generation of leaders.
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NEW YORK -- The goals were clear when Sheneen Jackson enrolled her son in one of the first public schools in the nation to focus on Arabic language and culture. First, her 11-year-old would master Arabic. Later, doors would open for him in government and diplomacy -- maybe a job at the United...
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BEIJING, Aug. 28 -- In a country eagerly preparing to host next summer's Olympic Games, little Zhang Huimin seemed destined to become an early champion for the Chinese public.
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The rise and fall of AIDS activist Li Dan and the Dongzhen School for AIDS Orphans illustrates a broader struggle: a battle by a wide assortment of citizen groups to establish civil society and influence China's government.
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Like preparations for the Beijing Olympics four years from now, young Chinese Liu Xiang and Xing Huina are well ahead of schedule.