The alleged death by suicide of a 17-year-old who was sold by his parents after birth and said to have been rejected by them after a reunion only last month has prompted an outpouring of sympathy on Chinese social media. Liu Xuezhou, who lived and grew up in the central Chinese province of Hebei, posted a lengthy note about the unexpected developments in his life in the early hours of Monday on China’s Twitter-like Sina Weibo micro-blog platform, indicating that he had decided to end his life, alerting his many followers. Liu’s body was later found by the police on...