Foreword

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Chinese Dynasties ix
5. Foreword xi
6. Introduction 1
7. Part One Early China
8. 1. Dyed Silk: Han Notions Of The Moral Development Of Children 17
9. 2. Famous Chinese Childhoods 57
10. 3. Private Love and Public Duty: Images of Children in Early Chinese Art 79
11. 4. Filial Paragons and Spoiled Brats: A Glimpse of Medieval Chinese Children in the Shishuo Xinyu 111
12. Part Two Mid- to Late Imperial China
13. 5. Childhood Remembered: Parents and Children in China, 800 to 1700 129
14. 6. From Birth to Birth: The Growing Body in Chinese Medicine 157
15. 7. Infanticide and Dowry in Ming and Early Qing China 193
16. 8.Children of the Dream: The Adolescent World in Cao Xueqin’s Honglou Meng 219
17. Part Three Early Modern and Modern China
18. 9. Relief Institutions for Children in Nineteenth- Century China 251
19. 10. Remembering the Taste of Melons: Modern Chinese Stories of Childhood 279
20. 11. Revolutionary Little Red Devils: The Social Psychology of Rebel Youth, 1966–1967 321
21. Contributors 345
22. Index 347