Among China’s vast troops of left-behind children, an even more special segment is left-behind foreign children whose parents are oftentimes illegal immigrants who work low-paid jobs on foreign lands. This is a story on the lives of about 10,000 such left-behind American children in Fuzhou, Fujian province.
At Chinese New Year Eve, a 4-year-old boy called He Yide, who travelled to New York with his parents, was asked to run naked at 8:30 am in New York, in inches of snow and at – 13°C (9°F). The self-claimed “Eagle Dad” of the little boy recorded the whole process, which, after being posted online, aroused controversy and received waves of criticisms from Chinese netizens.