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

Raising China's revolutionaries : modernizing childhood for cosmopolitan nationalists and liberated comrades, 1920s-1950s / Margaret Mih Tillman.

"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 interv...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tillman, Margaret Mih (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
Series:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
Subjects:
Child rearing > China > History.
Child welfare > China > History.
Children > China > History.
Families > China > History.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Child study in Chinese kindergartens : Chen Heqin's approach to family education
  • Cherishing children : The National Child Welfare Association, 1928-1936
  • The calculus of child welfare : democratizing fundraising for Shanghai, 1937-1942
  • Wartime paternalisms : the cross-pollination of ideas in Yan-an and Chongqing
  • Contested service : building a national social welfare program in the Civil War, 1945-1949
  • The re-education of child experts : Chen Heqin as a model of self-criticism, 1949-1953
  • Women's mobilization and childcare for the masses : new visions for collective childcare in the 1950s.

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