O. Naftali

Children, Rights and Modernity in China

Raising Self-Governing Citizens

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is an original, ethnographic study of the emergence of a new type of thinking about children and their rights in urban China. It brings together evidence from a variety of Chinese government, academic, pedagogic and media publications, and from interviews and participant observations conducted in schools and homes in Shanghai, China.

Produktdetails

• Studies in Childhood and Youth
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-34658-2
• 2014
• Seitenzahl: 173
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9781137346582
• ISBN-10: 1137346582
• Artikelnr.: 39757367

Autorenporträt

Orna Naftali is Lecturer in the Department of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Recasting Children as Autonomous Persons: Children as Future Citizens and Workers 2. Children's Right to Self-Ownership: Space, Privacy and Punishment 3. Constituting Rights as Needs: Psychology and the Rise of Middle Class Childhood 4. The Filial Child Revisited: Tradition Holds its Ground in Modern Shanghai Conclusion