Children, Rights and Modernity in China - Raising Self-Governing Citizens

Informationen zum Autor Orna Naftali is Lecturer in the Department of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Recasting Children as Autonomous Persons: Children as Future Citizens and Workers 2. Children's Right to Self-Ownership: Space, Privacy and Punishment 3. Constituting Rights as Needs: Psychology and the Rise of Middle Class Childhood 4. The Filial Child Revisited: Tradition Holds its Ground in Modern Shanghai Conclusion

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Introduction 1. Recasting Children as Autonomous Persons: Children as Future Citizens and Workers 2. Children's Right to Self-Ownership: Space, Privacy and Punishment 3. Constituting Rights as Needs: Psychology and the Rise of Middle Class Childhood 4. The Filial Child Revisited: Tradition Holds its Ground in Modern Shanghai Conclusion

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• Authors: O Naftali, O. Naftali, Orna Naftali
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349467020
• ISBN: 978-1-349-46702-0
• No. of pages: 183
• Series: Studies in Childhood and Youth; Studies in Childhood and Youth
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; B, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Family, Anthropology, Social Policy, Social groups, adolescence, childhood, Sociology: family & relationships, Sociology, general, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Central / national / federal government policies, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Asian Culture, Ethnology—Asia, Children, Youth and Family Policy, childhood;children;psychology;Tradition