1. Recasting Children as Autonomous Persons: Children as Future Citizens and Workers --;2. Children's Right to Self-Ownership: Space, Privacy and Punishment --;3. Constituting Rights as Needs: Psychology and the Rise of Middle Class Childhood --;4. The Filial Child Revisited: Tradition Holds its Ground in Modern Shanghai --;Conclusion.
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This book is an original, ethnographic study of the emergence of a new type of thinking about children and their rights in urban China. It brings together evidence from a variety of Chinese government, academic, pedagogic and media publications, and from interviews and participant observations conducted in schools and homes in Shanghai, China.