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Female infanticide is a social practice often closely associated with Chinese culture. Journalists, social scientists, and historians alike emphasize that it is a result of the persistence of son preference, from China's ancient past to its modern present. Yet how is it that the killing of newborn daughters has come to be so intimately associated with Chinese culture? Between Birth and Death locates a significant historical shift in the representation of female infanticide during the nineteenth century. It was during these years that the practice transformed from a moral and deeply local issue affecting communities into an emblematic cultural marker of a backwards Chinese civilization, requiring the scientific, religious, and political attention of the West. Using a wide array of Chinese, French and English primary sources, the book takes readers on an unusual historical journey, presenting the varied perspectives of those concerned with the fate of an unwanted Chinese daughter: a late imperial Chinese mother in the immediate moments following birth, a male Chinese philanthropist dedicated to rectifying moral behavior in his community, Western Sinological experts preoccupied with determining the comparative prevalence of the practice, Catholic missionaries and schoolchildren intent on saving the souls of heathen Chinese children, and turn-of-the-century reformers grappling with the problem as a challenge for an emerging nation.

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This groundbreaking book offers the first full analysis of the long-neglected and controversial subject of female infanticide in China. Drawing on little-known Chinese documents and illustrations, noted historian D. E. Mungello describes the causes of female infanticide and its persistence for two thousand years.

Infanticide --- Female infanticide --- Homicide --- History. --- China [land in werelddeel Azië] --- HT-00 (2008) --- KADOC (x) --- kindermoord (x) --- vrouwen --- S11/0710 --- S11/0731 --- S11/0900 --- S13B/0200 --- History --- China: Social sciences--Women: general and before 1949 --- China: Social sciences--Childhood, youth --- China: Social sciences--Social pathology, social deviance (incl. infanticide, abandoned children, hoodlums) --- China: Christianity--General works

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Aging parents --- Family life surveys --- Intergenerational relations --- Parent and adult child --- S11/0731 --- S11/0702 --- S11/0732 --- China: Social sciences--Childhood, youth --- China: Social sciences--Clan and family in transition: since 1949 --- China: Social sciences--Elderly people --- Adult child and parent --- Adult children and parents --- Parent-adult child relations --- Parents and adult children --- Parent and child --- Adult children living with parents --- Sandwich generation --- Intergenerational relationships --- Relations, Intergenerational --- Relationships, Intergenerational --- Interpersonal relations --- Social surveys --- Elderly parents --- Parents, Aged --- Parents

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Chinese academic traditions take zuo ren—self-fulfillment in terms of moral cultivation—as the ultimate goal of education. To many in contemporary China, however, the nation seems gripped by moral decay, the result of rapid and profound social change over the course of the twentieth century. Placing Chinese children, alternately seen as China's greatest hope and derided as self-centered "little emperors," at the center of her analysis, Jing Xu investigates the effects of these transformations on the moral development of the nation's youngest generation. The Good Child examines preschool-aged children in Shanghai, tracing how Chinese socialization beliefs and methods influence their construction of a moral world. Delving into the growing pains of an increasingly competitive and changing educational environment, Xu documents the confusion, struggles, and anxieties of today's parents, educators, and grandparents, as well as the striking creativity of their children in shaping their own moral practices. Her innovative blend of anthropology and psychology reveals the interplay of their dialogues and debates, illuminating how young children's nascent moral dispositions are selected, expressed or repressed, and modulated in daily experiences.

Moral development --- Preschool children --- Moral education (Preschool) --- Child development --- Child study --- Children --- Development, Child --- Developmental biology --- Moral education --- Preschoolers --- Ethical development --- Child psychology --- Faith development --- Conduct of life. --- Development --- S11/0731 --- S12/0213 --- S14/0454 --- Conduct of life --- China: Social sciences--Childhood, youth --- China: Philosophy and Classics--Ethics --- China: Education--Education: since 1989 --- Child development. --- Kind. --- Moral development. --- Moral education (Preschool). --- Sittliche Erziehung. --- Sozialanthropologie. --- Vorschulerziehung. --- China --- China.

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The lives and aspirations of young Chinese (those between 14 and 26 years old) have been transformed in the past five decades. By examining youth cultures around three historical points - 1968, 1988 and 2008 - this book argues that present-day youth culture in China has both international and local roots. Paul Clark describes how the Red Guards and the sent-down youth of the Cultural Revolution era carved out a space for themselves, asserting their distinctive identities, despite tight political controls. By the late 1980s, Chinese-style rock music, sports and other recreations began to influence the identities of Chinese youth, and in the twenty-first century, the Internet offers a new, broader space for expressing youthful fandom and frustrations. From the 1960s to the present, this book shows how youth culture has been reworked to serve the needs of the young Chinese.

Youth --- Popular culture --- Group identity --- Internet --- Technology and youth --- Jeunesse --- Culture populaire --- Identité collective --- Technologie et jeunesse --- History --- Social conditions --- Attitudes. --- Social aspects --- Histoire --- Conditions sociales --- Attitudes --- Aspect social --- S11/0494 --- S11/0731 --- Young people --- Young persons --- Youngsters --- Youths --- Age groups --- Life cycle, Human --- Youth and technology --- DARPA Internet --- Internet (Computer network) --- Wide area networks (Computer networks) --- World Wide Web --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- China: Social sciences--Society since 1949 --- China: Social sciences--Childhood, youth --- Arts and Humanities