Children as treasures : : childhood and the middle class in early twentieth century Japan / / Mark A. Jones.

• Superior document: Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 328
• Author: Jones, Mark A. 1969-
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Harvard University Asia Center,, 2010.; Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2010.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 328.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 407 p. )

Mark Jones examines the making of a new child's world in Japan between 1890 and 1930 and focuses on the institutions, groups, and individuals that reshaped both the idea of childhood and the daily life of children.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Mark A. Jones -- Childhood, the Middle Class, and Modern Japan / Mark A. Jones -- The Moral and the Material: The Family Reformer and the Promotion of a Middle Class / Mark A. Jones -- The Public Professional and the Middle Class: The Scientific Expert's Quest for Social Influence / Mark A. Jones -- The Wise Mother and the Little Citizen: Building a Middle Class / Mark A. Jones -- The Self-Made Woman and the Superior Student: Transgressive Femininity, Educational Achievement, and Meritocratic Modernity / Mark A. Jones -- The Childlike Child: Play and the Importance of Leisure / Mark A. Jones -- Epilogue / Mark A. Jones -- Notes / Mark A. Jones -- Works Cited / Mark A. Jones -- Index / Mark A. Jones -- Harvard East Asian Monographs / Mark A. Jones.