Children Rights And Modernity In China

Author : O. Naftali
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137346590
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children, Rights and Modernity in China written by O. Naftali and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : O. Naftali
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137346590
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children, Rights and Modernity in China written by O. Naftali and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Bao-Er
Publisher : Bao-Er
ISBN 13 : 1921300566
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China's Child Contracts written by Bao-Er and published by Bao-Er. This book was released on 2007 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Orna Naftali
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509505946
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children in China written by Orna Naftali and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese childhood is undergoing a major transformation. This book explores how government policies introduced in China over the last few decades and processes of social and economic change are reshaping the lives of children and the meanings of childhood in complex, contradictory ways. Drawing on a broad range of literature and original ethnographic research, Naftali explores the rise of new ideas of child-care, child-vulnerability and child-agency; the impact of the One-Child Policy; and the emergence of children as independent consumers in the new market economy. She shows that Chinese boys and increasingly girls, too are enjoying a new empowerment, a development that has met with ambiguity and resistance from both caregivers and the state. She also demonstrates how economic restructuring and the recent waves of rural/urban migration have produced starkly unequal conditions for children’s education and development both in the countryside and in the cities. Children in China is essential reading for students and scholars seeking a deeper understanding of what it means to be a child in contemporary China, as well as for those concerned with the changing relationship between children, the state and the family in the global era.

Author : Kam Louie
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 988820856X
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Changing Chinese Masculinities written by Kam Louie and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is now almost a cliché to claim that China and the Chinese people have changed. Yet inside the new clothing that is worn by the Chinese man today, Kam Louie contends, we still see much of the historical Chinese man. With contributions from a team of outstanding scholars, Changing Chinese Masculinitiesstudies a range of Chinese men in diverse and, most importantly, Chinese contexts. It explores the fundamental meaning of manhood in the Chinese setting and the very notion of an indigenous Chinese masculinity. In twelve chapters spanning the late imperial period to the present day, Changing Chinese Masculinitiesbrings a much needed historical dimension to the discussion. Key aspects defining the male identity such as family relationships and attitudes toward sex, class, and career are explored in depth. Familiar notions of Chinese manhood come in all shapes and sizes. Concubinage reemerges as the taking of “second wives” in recent decades. Male homoerotic love and male prostitution are shown to have long historical roots. The self-images of the literati and officials form an interesting contrast with those of the contemporary white-collar men. Masculinity and nationalism complement each other in troubling ways. China has indeed changed and is still changing, but most of these social transformations do not indicate a complete break with past beliefs or practices in gender relations. Changing Chinese Masculinities inaugurates the Hong Kong University Press book series “Transnational Asian Masculinities.” “Produced by a group of outstanding scholars, this volume offers important insights into little-known aspects of Chinese masculinity. An indispensable reference for those with an interest in Chinese sexuality, social history, and contemporary Chinese culture.” —Anne McLaren, professor of Chinese studies, University of Melbourne “In this book, scholars of late imperial and contemporary China gather to define and critique masculinity in both periods, explore its complexities, and map continuities and discontinuities. What are the traditional models and to what degree do they still maintain a grip today? Is there a ‘masculinity crisis’ in China, and what does it mean to be a Chinese man today? These are some of the daring topics the authors explore.” —Keith McMahon, professor of Chinese language and literature, University of Kansas

Author : Qian Gong
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137498773
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children’s Healthcare and Parental Media Engagement in Urban China written by Qian Gong and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-25 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses parental anxieties about their children’s healthcare issues in urban China, engaging with wider theoretical debates about modernity, risk and anxiety. It examines the broader social, cultural and historical contexts of parental anxiety by analysing a series of socio-economic changes and population policy changes in post-reform China that contextualise parental experiences. Drawing on Wilkinson’s (2001) conceptualisation linking individual’s risk consciousness to anxiety, this book analyses the situated risk experiences of parents’ and grandparents’, looking particularly into their engagement with various types of media. It studies the representations of health issues and health-related risks in a parenting magazine, popular newspapers, commercial advertising and new media, as well as parents’ and grandparents’ engagement with and response to these media representations. By investigating ‘a culture of anxiety’ among parents and grandparents in contemporary China, this book seeks to add to the scholarship of contemporary parenthood in a non- Western context.

Author : Bao Er
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781847282323
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China's Neo-Traditional Rights of the Child written by Bao Er and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China has a long and enduring culture involving a complex set of highly ritualised social roles. Less well known, however, is the existence throughout Chinese history and society of a vibrant culture of contract. In 1978 China began opening up to the West. Since then China has signed a wide range of international agreements (including the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child) and adopted a large number of Westernised laws which make a number of child promises (ie. promises aimed at minimising child-harm). However, the rights a child might legitimately enjoy in China at the present time, over and above those connected with their social obligations, are based not on their humanity but, rather, on their capacity to fulfil a set of contractual obligations (promises) which stem from the status of parties as interdependent (not independent) human beings. ; ;This book develops a basic philosophical framework with which to explore and analyse China'TMs child-promises.

Author : Lijun Chen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429627734
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Child and Youth Well-being in China written by Lijun Chen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true measure of any society is how it treats its children, who are in turn that society’s future. Making use of data from the longitudinal Chinese Family Panel Studies survey, the authors of this timely study provide a multi-faceted description and analysis of China’s younger generations. They assess the economic, physical, and social-emotional well-being as well as the cognitive performance and educational attainment of China's children and youth. They pay special attention to the significance of family and community contexts, including the impact of parental absence on millions of left-behind children. Throughout the volume, the authors delineate various forms of disparities, especially the structural inequalities maintained by the Chinese Party-state and the vulnerabilities of children and youth in fragile families and communities. They also analyze the social attitudes and values of Chinese youth. Having grown up in a period of sustained prosperity and greater individual choice, the younger Chinese cohorts are more independent in spirit, more open-minded socially, and significantly less deferential to authority than older cohorts. There is growing recognition in China of the importance of investing in children’s future and of helping the less advantaged. Substantial improvements in child and youth well-being have been achieved in a time of growing economic prosperity. Strong political commitment is needed to sustain existing efforts and to overcome the many obstacles that remain. This book will be of considerable interest to researchers of Chinese society and development.

Author : Minhua Ling
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503610772
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Inconvenient Generation written by Minhua Ling and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After three decades of massive rural-to-urban migration in China, a burgeoning population of over 35 million second-generation migrants living in its cities poses a challenge to socialist modes of population management and urban governance. In The Inconvenient Generation, Minhua Ling offers the first longitudinal study of these migrant youth from middle school to the labor market in the years after the Shanghai municipal government partially opened its public school system to them. Drawing on multi-sited ethnographic data, Ling follows the trajectories of dozens of children coming of age at a time of competing economic and social imperatives, and its everyday ramifications on their sense of identity, educational outcomes, and citizenship claims. Under policies and practices of segmented inclusion, they are inevitably funneled through the school system toward a life of manual labor. Illuminating the aspirations and strategies of these young men and women, Ling captures their experiences against the backdrop of a reemergent global Shanghai.

Author : Xiaowei Zang
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785368192
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook on the Family and Marriage in China written by Xiaowei Zang and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-29 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook advances research on the family and marriage in China by providing readers with a multidisciplinary and multifaceted coverage of major issues in one single volume. It addresses the major conceptual, theoretical and methodological issues of marriage and family in China and offers critical reflections on both the history and likely progression of the field.