Chinese Views of Childhood

368 Pages·1995·10.358 MB·English

by  Anne Behnke Kinney

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Chinese Views of Childhood
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Chinese Views
of Childhood
Edited by
Anne Behnke Kinney
university of hawai‘i press
Honolulu
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© 1995 University of Hawai‘i Press
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
95 96 97 98 99 00 5 4 3 2 1
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Chinese views of childhood / edited by Anne Behnke Kinney.
p. cm.
Includes index.
isbn 0-8248-1681-1
1. ChildrenChinaHistory. 2. YouthChinaHistory.
3. ChildrenChinaSocial conditions. 4. YouthChina
Social conditions. I. Kinney, Anne Behnke.
hq792.csc475 1995
305.23’0951—dc20
95-882
cip
University of Hawai‘i Press books are printed on acid-free paper
and meet the guidelines for permanence and durability of the
Council on Library Resources
Designed by Paula Newcomb
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Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Chinese Dynasties ix
Foreword
c. john sommerville xi
Introduction
anne behnke kinney 1
part one: early china
1. Dyed Silk: Han Notions of the Moral Development
of Children
anne behnke kinney 17
2. Famous Chinese Childhoods
kenneth j. dewoskin 57
3. Private Love and Public Duty: Images of Children
in Early Chinese Art
wu hung 79
4. Filial Paragons and Spoiled Brats: A Glimpse of
Medieval Chinese Children in the Shishuo xinyu
richard b. mather 111
part two: mid- to late imperial china
5. Childhood Remembered: Parents and Children in
China, 800 to 1700
pei-yi wu 129
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6. From Birth to Birth: The Growing Body in
Chinese Medicine
charlotte furth 157
7. Infanticide and Dowry in Ming and Early
Qing China
ann waltner 193
8. Children of the Dream: The Adolescent
World in Cao Xueqin’s Honglou meng
lucien miller 219
part three: early modern and modern china
9. Relief Institutions for Children in
Nineteenth-Century China
angela ki che leung 251
10. Remembering the Taste of Melons: Modern
Chinese Stories of Childhood
catherine e. pease 279
11. Revolutionary Little Red Devils: The Social
Psychology of Rebel Youth, 1966–1967
mark lupher 321
Contributors 345
Index 347
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Acknowledgments
I am first of all grateful to Dexter Whitehead, former director of the
University of Virginia’s Center for Advanced Studies, for helping to
fund the conference at which these essays were first presented in
1990. I would also like to thank the Association of Asian Studies, the
California Institute of Technology, and the Ellen Bayard Weedon
Foundation for their contributions to the conference.
I am grateful to Viola Winner for her expertise in photographing
some of the illustrations used in this book. Thanks also go to Ellen
Laing and Keith Wilson for their advice on these selections. I am
grateful to the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of
China, and to the Peabody Essex Institute in Salem, Massachusetts,
for their permission to reproduce paintings and photographs from
their collections in this book. Joseph Lipten provided valuable assis-
tance in compiling the index.
Gail Moore and Judy Birckhead deserve thanks for the hours of
technical assistance they provided. Final thanks go to Patricia Crosby
for her patience, editorial expertise, and faith in this project.
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Chinese Dynasties
traditional chronology
Shang/Yin 1766–1122 b.c.
Zhou 1123–256 b.c.
Qin 221–207 b.c.
Han 206 b.c.–a.d. 220
Three Kingdoms 221–280
Jin 265–419
Six Dynasties 386–589
Sui 589–618
Tang 618–907
Five Dynasties 907–959
Song 960–1279
Yuan 1280–1368
Ming 1368–1644
Qing 1644–1911
Republic of China 1912
People’s Republic of China 1949
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