Wei Lui has written a thorough research paper, complete with interviews and anecdotes, about China's left-behind children. Here is a paragraph from his abstract:
"The overall aim of this research is to explore the experiences of children‘s being left behind at home, at school and in the community from the perspectives of four main groups of stakeholders: left-behind children, their guardians, their parents and their teachers."
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