{"id":1465,"date":"2021-10-20T11:20:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T11:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/contemporarychina\/?p=1465"},"modified":"2021-10-20T11:20:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T11:20:23","slug":"issue-11-children-and-childhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/contemporarychina\/issue-11-children-and-childhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Issue 11: Children and Childhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Read - Repositioning Potatoes in the People\u2019s Republic of China - on the Contemporary China Centre Blog http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/contemporarychina\/Issue 11: Children and Childhood\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-456\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/contemporarychina\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2016\/02\/twitter_share_icon_wordpress-1-300x100.png\" alt=\"Share this post in Twitter\" width=\"80\" height=\"26\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Written by Editor<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">In this issue, we explore the ways in which children and\u00a0childhood are\/have been understood, inhabited, cultivated, represented, governed, politicised and\/or commodified in China and the Sinophone world past and present.\u00a0\u00a0<u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">In the first piece, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/contemporarychina\/children-and-war-education-in-maoist-era-china-1949-1976\/\">Orna Naftali<\/a> examines children and war education in the PRC during the Maoist era, showing the\u00a0complex and continual debates between disparate views of childhood, pedagogy, and violence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">The second piece, written by <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/contemporarychina\/the-kids-are-alright-collective-childcare-in-the-peoples-republic\/\">Margaret Mih Tillman<\/a>, takes a look at\u00a0collective childcare in the early years of the PRC, with a particular focus on how revolutionary gendered norms and worker productivity shaped its development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">Third in this issue is a piece by <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/contemporarychina\/chinese-childhoods-then-and-now\/\">Carl Kuber<\/a> exploring the connections between ideas about\u00a0childhood in the 1950s and more recent child-oriented developments, such as the three-child policy, curtailing of after-school tutoring, new restrictions on videogaming.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">The fourth piece comes from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/contemporarychina\/what-is-a-good-child-raising-children-in-a-changing-china\/\">Jing Xu<\/a>\u00a0and explores\u00a0changing visions of what it means to be a &#8216;good&#8217; child in China.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">The final piece in this issue, written by\u00a0Maura Cunningham, provides a social and cultural history of child welfare in Shanghai from the late Qing through early PRC.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Editor In this issue, we explore the ways in which children and\u00a0childhood are\/have been understood, inhabited, cultivated, represented, governed, politicised and\/or commodified in China and the Sinophone world past and present.\u00a0\u00a0 In the first piece, Orna Naftali examines&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":248,"featured_media":1466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[44,45,46],"class_list":["post-1465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-issue-eleven","tag-child","tag-childhood","tag-children"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/contemporarychina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/contemporarychina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/contemporarychina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/contemporarychina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/contemporarychina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/contemporarychina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/contemporarychina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/contemporarychina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/contemporarychina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/contemporarychina\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}