Children as treasures
Subtitle: childhood and the middle class in early twentieth century Japan
By: Mark A. Jones
Series: Harvard East Asian monographs -- 328
Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 407
ISBN-13: 9780674053342
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The moral and the material : the family reformer and the promotion of a middle class; title: The public professional and the middle class : the scientific expert's quest for social influence; title: The wise mother and the little citizen : building a middle class; title: The self-made woman and the superior student : transgressive femininity, educational achievement and meritocratic modernity; title: The childlike child : play and the importance of leisure; title: Epilogue.