“…With the famous final words of Lu Xun's epochal 1918 story "Diary of a Madman"-Save the children!as their rallying cry, generations of Chinese philosophers, scientists, educators, and political leaders invested their hopes for radical social and cultural change in the nation's children (Kinney, 1995;Hsiung, 2008;Jones, 2011;Tillman, 2018). A small body of recent scholarship has addressed important topics such as child welfare, children's literature, education, and the links between conceptions of childhood and conceptions of politics in modern China (Hsiung, 2005;Plum, 2006Plum, , 2012Apter, 2013;Chen, 2012;Cunningham, 2014;David, 2018). However, citing a lack of sources, these works rarely incorporate the voices of children themselves.…”