Raising China's revolutionaries : modernizing childhood for cosmopolitan nationalists and liberated comrades, 1920s-1950s /
Focuses on how childhood was reconstructed in China, and how children were cared for in new ways, from the early Republican period through the first decade of the PRC. During this time, reformers tried to "modernize" childhood, using a scientific rationale to justify increased intervention...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Child study in Chinese kindergartens : Chen Heqin's approach to "family education"
- Cherishing children : The National Child Welfare Association in the Nanjing decade, 1928-1937
- The calculus of child welfare : the democratizing fundraising for Shanghai, 1937-1942
- Wartime paternalisms : mobilizing child advocacy for the state
- Contested service : building a national social welfare program in the Civil War, 1945-1949
- The reeducation of child experts : Chen Heqin as a model of self-criticism
- Women's mobilization and childcare for the masses : new visions for collective childcare in the 1950s
- Conclusion.