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Children as Treasures Childhood and the Middle Class in Early Twentieth Century Japan
Title
Children as Treasures [electronic resource] : Childhood and the Middle Class in Early Twentieth Century Japan / Mark A. Jones.
ISBN
1684175011
9781684175017
0674053346 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780674053342 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2010. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 407 p. )
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Summary
Mark Jones examines the making of a new child's world in Japan between 1890 and 1930 and focuses on the institutions, groups, and individuals that reshaped both the idea of childhood and the daily life of children.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 15, 2020
Series
Harvard East Asian monographs ; 328
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references [372]-387and index.
Contents
The moral and the material : the family reformer and the promotion of a middle class
The public professional and the middle class : the scientific expert's quest for social influence
The wise mother and the little citizen : building a middle class
The self-made woman and the superior student : transgressive femininity, educational achievement, and meritocratic modernity
The childlike child : play and the importance of leisure
Epilogue.
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