Mises Daily
Author:
N. Joseph Potts
Online Publish Date:
Oliver Twist is alive today and recovering in a hospital in Beijing. The Dickensian saga of 13-year-old Xu Qian Qian fills one column on the front page of the Wall Street Journal for December 7, 2004 and, with color photos and maps, a full page inside Section A. Here is documented the story of one of the millions of disabled children in China,