TY - CHAP
T1 - Conclusion
AU - Naftali, Orna
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2014, Orna Naftali.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - This book began with a short account describing the alarm and dismay felt by a Chinese educator at the sight of a woman beating her child in public. The denunciation of this mother’s actions over the pages of a CCP news publication, I suggested, indicates a pivotal shift in Chinese conceptions of childhood, power, and subjectivity in the post-socialist era. Rather than appendages to their families, to society, or the nation, as has been the case for much of Chinese history, children in China are now increasingly recast in the role of “small subjects,” worthy of rights and respect. Exploring the origins and dynamics of this shift, this book has argued that it is a product not only of the changing value of urban youngsters in the era of economic reforms and the One-Child Policy, but also, and no less significantly, of the increasing influence of a modern, liberal discourse on children’s rights in post-1989, urban China.
AB - This book began with a short account describing the alarm and dismay felt by a Chinese educator at the sight of a woman beating her child in public. The denunciation of this mother’s actions over the pages of a CCP news publication, I suggested, indicates a pivotal shift in Chinese conceptions of childhood, power, and subjectivity in the post-socialist era. Rather than appendages to their families, to society, or the nation, as has been the case for much of Chinese history, children in China are now increasingly recast in the role of “small subjects,” worthy of rights and respect. Exploring the origins and dynamics of this shift, this book has argued that it is a product not only of the changing value of urban youngsters in the era of economic reforms and the One-Child Policy, but also, and no less significantly, of the increasing influence of a modern, liberal discourse on children’s rights in post-1989, urban China.
KW - Chinese Educator
KW - Migrant School
KW - National College Entrance Examination
KW - Pivotal Shift
KW - Rural Migrant
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85145404805&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137346599_6
DO - https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137346599_6
M3 - فصل
T3 - Studies in Childhood and Youth
SP - 128
EP - 137
BT - Studies in Childhood and Youth
ER -