Children, Rights and Modernity in China [electronic resource] : Raising Self-Governing Citizens /
Naftali, O.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Children''s rights and the distinct form of Chinese modernity; The emergence of the child-rights discourse in the modern era; Childhood, rights, and citizenship in post-socialist urban China; Social and generational habitus in the formation of children''s rights; Research populations and research methods; Outline of the book; 1 Recasting Children as Autonomous Persons: Children as Future Citizens and Workers; The legal discourse of children''s rights in China; ""Children are masters of their own lives""; Creating a democratic family environment
Children''s empowerment and the quality of the nationConcluding remarks; 2 Children''s Right to Self-Ownership: Space, Privacy, and Punishment; Children and privacy in Chinese modernity; ""Each person has his own piece of the sky""; Children''s right to bodily privacy and physical integrity; ""What right do you have to reproach him?""; ""We now have a law that protects us!""; Discussion and conclusion; 3 Constituting Rights as Needs: Psychology and the Rise of Middle-Class Childhood; The psychological discourse of childhood in modern China ; Recognizing children''s developmental needs
Learning should be funTending to students'' emotional wellbeing; Necessary reading for parents; ""You can barely call it a childhood""; Concluding remarks; 4 The Filial Child Revisited: Tradition Holds Its Ground in Modern Shanghai; The attraction of tradition and the perils of freedom; Respecting children''s rights or upholding filial piety?; ""The Loving Heart Passes On""; Concluding remarks; Conclusion; Rights, intimacy, and belonging; The political implications of China''s child-rights discourse; Notes; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Childhood.
Adolescence.
Social groups.
Family.
Social policy.
Ethnology-Asia.
Sociology.
Anthropology.
Childhood, Adolescence and Society.
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
Children, Youth and Family Policy.
Asian Culture.
Sociology, general.
Anthropology.