Children, Rights and Modernity in China - Raising Self-Governing Citizens (Hardcover, New)

A timely, original study of the emergence of a new type of thinking about children and their rights in contemporary urban China, which draws on diverse evidence from Chinese government, academic, media, and pedagogic publications, as well as on participant observation and interviews in two primary schools and among elite and middle class families in Shanghai, China. Drawing on rich, ethnographic data, this book debunks many popular and scholarly stereotypes about the predominance of Confucian ideas of parental authority in China or about the indifference to individual human rights in the political and public culture of the PRC. This book also recognizes the complexities and conflicts that exist in Chinese discourses about and practices toward children, as older ideas of filiality, neoliberal ideologies, and the new awareness of children's right to privacy, to expressing their views, and to protection against violence compete and collude in complicated, often contradictory ways.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Studies in Childhood and Youth
Release date:	April 2014
First published:	April 2014
Authors:	O. Naftali
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	173
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-137-34658-2
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Globalization Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Age groups > Children Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > General
LSN:	1-137-34658-2
Barcode:	9781137346582

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