Abstract
The four pieces of this chapter explore changing discourses of childhood and parenting in the PRC. Orna Naftali examines children and war education in the PRC during the Maoist era, showing the complex and continual debates between disparate views of childhood, pedagogy, and violence. Carl Kuber explores the connections between ideas about childhood in the 1950s and more recent child-oriented developments, such as the three-child policy, curtailing of after-school tutoring, new restrictions on videogaming. Jing Xu, drawing from her field research at a private Shanghai preschool, discusses some of the pressures and anxieties among middle class parents about raising a ‘good child’. Fei Huang looks at social media discourses about stay-at-home fathers in China and reflects on how this emergent gendered identity is represented in today’s digital China.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Cultural China 2021 |
| Subtitle of host publication | the Contemporary China Centre review |
| Editors | Séagh Kehoe, Gerda Wielander |
| Place of Publication | London |
| Publisher | University of Westminster Press |
| Chapter | 4.4 |
| Pages | 67-70 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781915445179 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781915445209 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 15 Dec 2022 |
Keywords
- Discourse
- School
- Media
- War
- Gender
- Parenting
- Children
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