Chinese Views of Childhood 9780824861889
Chinese in the twentieth century, intent on modernizing their country, condemned their inherited culture in part on the
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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Chinese Dynasties
Foreword
Introduction
Part One Early China
1. Dyed Silk: Han Notions Of The Moral Development Of Children
2. Famous Chinese Childhoods
3. Private Love and Public Duty: Images of Children in Early Chinese Art
4. Filial Paragons and Spoiled Brats: A Glimpse of Medieval Chinese Children in the Shishuo Xinyu
Part Two Mid- to Late Imperial China
5. Childhood Remembered: Parents and Children in China, 800 to 1700
6. From Birth to Birth: The Growing Body in Chinese Medicine
7. Infanticide and Dowry in Ming and Early Qing China
8.Children of the Dream: The Adolescent World in Cao Xueqin’s Honglou Meng
Part Three Early Modern and Modern China
9. Relief Institutions for Children in Nineteenth- Century China
10. Remembering the Taste of Melons: Modern Chinese Stories of Childhood
11. Revolutionary Little Red Devils: The Social Psychology of Rebel Youth, 1966–1967
Contributors
Index
Contents
Acknowledgments
Chinese Dynasties
Foreword
Introduction
Part One Early China
1. Dyed Silk: Han Notions Of The Moral Development Of Children
2. Famous Chinese Childhoods
3. Private Love and Public Duty: Images of Children in Early Chinese Art
4. Filial Paragons and Spoiled Brats: A Glimpse of Medieval Chinese Children in the Shishuo Xinyu
Part Two Mid- to Late Imperial China
5. Childhood Remembered: Parents and Children in China, 800 to 1700
6. From Birth to Birth: The Growing Body in Chinese Medicine
7. Infanticide and Dowry in Ming and Early Qing China
8.Children of the Dream: The Adolescent World in Cao Xueqin’s Honglou Meng
Part Three Early Modern and Modern China
9. Relief Institutions for Children in Nineteenth- Century China
10. Remembering the Taste of Melons: Modern Chinese Stories of Childhood
11. Revolutionary Little Red Devils: The Social Psychology of Rebel Youth, 1966–1967
Contributors
Index
- Author / Uploaded
- Anne B. Kenney (editor)
