Children as treasures : childhood and the middle class in early twentieth century Japan / Mark A. Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Mark A. (Mark Alan), 1969-

Series:

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 328.

Harvard East Asian monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle class--Japan--History--20th century.

Middle class.

Children--Japan--History--20th century.

Children.

Parent and child--Japan--Psychological aspects.

Parent and child.

Families--Japan--History--20th century.

Families.

Social conditions.

History.

Psychological aspects.

Japan--Social conditions--20th century.

Japan.

Physical Description:

xii, 407 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2010.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674053342

0674053346

OCLC:

456169824