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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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2018]
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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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Table of Contents:
  • 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