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Raising China's revolutionaries : modernizing childhood for cosmopolitan nationalists and liberated comrades, 1920s-1950s

Tillman, Margaret Mih, author

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\"Focuses on how childhood was reconstructed in China, and how children were cared for in new ways, from the early Republican period through the first decade of the PRC. During this time, reformers tried to \"modernize\" childhood, using a scientific rationale to justify increased intervention in family life, and leverage it as a fulcrum for social and political change in the country. The Chinese state eventually usurped the authority of these reformers and increased government involvement in child welfare and family life. While some opposed the state using childhood as a tool for economic modernization and political control, child advocates saw China's national salvation project as consistent with their efforts to safeguard children's \"happiness.\" The book therefore shows that this \"sentimentalization\" of childhood could serve multiple purposes: academic scholarship, economic modernization, and political diplomacy\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Subject: Child rearing China History. / Child welfare China History. / Children China History. / Families China History.
• ISBN: 9780231185585

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HQ792.C5 T56 2018	1	BOOK	GENERAL