Children,Rights and Modernity in China: Raising
A timely,original study of the emergence of a new type of thinking about children and their rights in contemporary urban China,which draws on diverse evidence from Chinese government,academic,media,and pedagogic publications,as well as on participant observation and interviews in two primary schools and among elite and middle class families in Shanghai,China. Drawing on rich,ethnographic data,this book debunks many popular and scholarly stereotypes about the predominance of Confucian ideas of