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.

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Orna Naftali

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

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Book Title: Children, Rights and Modernity in China
Book Subtitle: Raising Self-Governing Citizens
Authors: Orna Naftali
Series Title: Studies in Childhood and Youth
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137346599
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-34658-2Published: 08 April 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-46702-0Published: 01 January 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-34659-9Published: 08 April 2014
Series ISSN: 2731-6467
Series E-ISSN: 2731-6475
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 173
Topics: Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Children, Youth and Family Policy, Asian Culture, Sociology, general, Anthropology

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

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

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

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

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

Conclusion

Back Matter

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