Raising China's Revolutionaries : : Modernizing Childhood for Cosmopolitan Nationalists and Liberated Comrades, 1920s-1950s / / Margaret Mih Tillman.
A widespread conviction in the need to rescue China's children took hold in the early twentieth century. Amid political upheaval and natural disasters, neglected or abandoned children became a humanitarian focal point for Sino-Western cooperation and intervention in family life. Chinese academi...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 6 b&w illustrations |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations in Text -- Introduction -- PART I The Science of Sentiment -- I Child Study in Chinese Kindergartens: Chen Heqin's Approach to "Family Education" -- II Cherishing Children: The National Child Welfare Association in the Nanjing Decade, 1928- 1937 -- III The Calculus of Child Welfare: The Democratization of Fundraising for Shanghai, 1937- 1942 -- PART II Child Experts and the Chinese State -- IV Wartime Paternalisms: Mobilizing Child Advocacy for the State -- V Contested Service: Building a National Social Welfare Program in the Civil War, 1945- 1949 -- VI The Reeducation of Child Experts: Chen Heqin as a Model of Self- Criticism -- VII Women's Mobilization and Childcare for the Masses: Collective Childcare in the 1950s -- Conclusion -- Character List (as identified in text) -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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Summary: | A widespread conviction in the need to rescue China's children took hold in the early twentieth century. Amid political upheaval and natural disasters, neglected or abandoned children became a humanitarian focal point for Sino-Western cooperation and intervention in family life. Chinese academics and officials sought new scientific measures, educational institutions, and social reforms to improve children's welfare. Successive regimes encouraged teachers to shape children into Qing subjects, Nationalist citizens, or Communist comrades.In Raising China's Revolutionaries, Margaret Mih Tillman offers a novel perspective on the political and scientific dimensions of experiments with early childhood education from the early Republican period through the first decade of the People's Republic. She traces transnational advocacy for child welfare and education, examining Christian missionaries, philanthropists, and the role of international relief during World War II. Tillman provides in-depth analysis of similarities and differences between Nationalist and Communist policy and cultural notions of childhood. While both Nationalist and Communist regimes drew on preschool institutions to mobilize the workforce and shape children's political subjectivity, the Communist regime rejected the Nationalists' commitment to the modern, bourgeois family. With new insights into the roles of experts, the cultural politics of fundraising, and child welfare as a form of international exchange, Raising China's Revolutionaries is an important work of institutional and transnational history that illuminates the evolution of modern concepts of childhood in China. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780231546225 9783110649826 9783110606607 9783110604252 9783110603255 9783110604030 9783110603149 |
DOI: | 10.7312/till18558 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Margaret Mih Tillman. |