Written by Jing Xu In the summer of 2011, I packed up my life and an unruly toddler and returned to China to do field research at a private Shanghai preschool. It was an interesting time to be a new…
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Written by Carl Kubler Childhood in China is undergoing a revolution. On May 31, 2021, just a few years after ending the decades-old one-child policy (yihai zhengce 一孩政策) that had defined much of urban family planning from the 1980s until…
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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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