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Children, Rights and Modernity in China

Raising Self-Governing Citizens

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  • © 2014

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Authors:
  1. Orna Naftali

    1. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

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Part of the book series: Studies in Childhood and Youth (SCY)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-32

  3. Recasting Children as Autonomous Persons: Children as Future Citizens and Workers

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    Pages 33-58

  4. Children’s Right to Self-Ownership: Space, Privacy, and Punishment

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    Pages 59-82

  5. Constituting Rights as Needs: Psychology and the Rise of Middle-Class Childhood

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    Pages 83-109

  6. The Filial Child Revisited: Tradition Holds Its Ground in Modern Shanghai

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    Pages 110-127

  7. Conclusion

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    Pages 128-137

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 138-173
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

    Orna Naftali

About the author

Orna Naftali is Lecturer in the Department of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

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