Child?s Play
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Oakland, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780520296275; 9780520968844
Subjects: Asian history; History
Description: Few things make Japanese adults feel quite as anxious today as the phenomenon called the ?child crisis.? Various media teem with intense debates about bullying in schools, child poverty, child suicides, violent crimes committed by children, the rise of socially withdrawn youngsters, and forceful moves by the government to introduce a more conservative educational curriculum. These issues have propelled Japan into the center of a set of global conversations about the nature of children and how to raise them. Engaging both the history of children and childhood and the history of emotions, contributors to this volume track Japanese childhood through a number of historical scenarios. Such explorations?some from Japan?s early modern past?are revealed through letters, diaries, memoirs, family and household records, and religious polemics about promising, rambunctious, sickly, happy, and dutiful youngsters.
Notes: English.