Written by Margaret Mih Tillman Infants need constant care, and birthing parents bear the brunt of those demands. Many local Chinese traditions allowed postpartum women a full month of recovery and rest. Some of those prescriptions dovetail with current ideas…
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Written by Orna Naftali War culture has had tremendous power in shaping modern understandings of the nation in the PRC. But the role of children’s education in the creation of that culture has received little attention. Most studies that have tackled…
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Written by Editor In this issue, we explore the ways in which children and childhood are/have been understood, inhabited, cultivated, represented, governed, politicised and/or commodified in China and the Sinophone world past and present. In the first piece, Orna Naftali examines…
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Written by Jakob Klein In 2015, China’s Ministry of Agriculture announced a strategy to transform the white potato (Solanum tuberosum) into a staple food for the Chinese nation. Policy documents and promotional literature allege benefits to raising the potato to…
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