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

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