Tillman Raising China's Revolutionaries

Modernizing Childhood for Cosmopolitan Nationalists and Liberated Comrades, 1920s-1950s
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-231-54622-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 100 Seiten

Reihe: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Margaret Mih Tillman offers a novel perspective on the political and scientific dimensions of experiments with early childhood education. Raising China’s Revolutionaries is an important work of institutional and transnational history that illuminates the evolution of modern concepts of childhood in twentieth-century China.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tillman, Margaret Mih

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations in Text
Introduction
Part I: The Science of Sentiment
1. Child Study in Chinese Kindergartens: Chen Heqin’s Approach to “Family Education”
2. Cherishing Children: The National Child Welfare Association in the Nanjing Decade, 1928–1937
3. The Calculus of Child Welfare: The Democratization of Fundraising for Shanghai, 1937–1942
Part II: Child Experts and the Chinese State
4. Wartime Paternalisms: Mobilizing Child Advocacy for the State
5. Contested Service: Building a National Social Welfare Program in the Civil War, 1945–1949
6. The Reeducation of Child Experts: Chen Heqin as a Model of Self-Criticism
7. Women’s Mobilization and Childcare for the Masses: Collective Childcare in the 1950s
Conclusion
Character List
Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tillman Margaret Mih:
Margaret Tillman is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Purdue University. She has published articles in the Taiwan Journal of East Asian Studies, New Frontiers in Chinese History, Cross-Currents, and Oriens Extremus, among other publications.Margaret Mih Tillman is assistant professor of history at Purdue University.