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