Format:
1 Online-Ressource (314 p)
Edition:
[Online-Ausgabe]
ISBN:
9780520968844
Content:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Table -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE: Premodern Period -- 1. Nasty Boys or Obedient Children?: Childhood and Relative Autonomy in Medieval Japanese Monasteries -- 2. Growing Up Manly: Male Samurai Childhood in Late Edo-Era Tosa -- 3. For the Love of Children: Practice, Affect, and Subjectivities in Hirata Atsutane's Household -- PART TWO: Early Twentieth Century -- 4. Consumer Consumption for Children: Conceptions of Childhood in the Work of Taishō-Period Designers -- 5. "Children in the Wind": Reexamining the Golden Age of Childhood Film in Wartime Japan -- 6. Children and the Founding of Manchukuo: The Young Girl Ambassadors as Promoters of Friendship -- PART THREE: Asia-Pacific War -- 7. Reversing the Gaze: The Construction of "Adulthood" in the Wartime Diaries of Japanese Children and Youth -- 8. Outdoor Play in Wartime Japan -- 9. " . . . And my heart screams": Children and the War of Emotions -- PART FOUR: Contemporary Japan -- 10. From Grade Schooler to Great Star: Childhood Development and the "Golden Age" in the World of Japanese Soccer -- 11. Treatment and Intervention for Children with Developmental Disabilities -- 12. Food, Affect, and Experiments in Care: Constituting a "Household-like" Child Welfare Institution in Japan -- 13. Monju-kun: Children's Culture as Protest -- Contributors -- Index
Content:
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Few things make Japanese adults feel quite as anxious today as the phenomenon called the "child crisis." Various media teem with intense debates about bullying in schools, child poverty, child suicides, violent crimes committed by children, the rise of socially withdrawn youngsters, and forceful moves by the government to introduce a more conservative educational curriculum. These issues have propelled Japan into the center of a set of global conversations about the nature of children and how to raise them. Engaging both the history of children and childhood and the history of emotions, contributors to this volume track Japanese childhood through a number of historical scenarios. Such explorations-some from Japan's early-modern past-are revealed through letters, diaries, memoirs, family and household records, and religious polemics about promising, rambunctious, sickly, happy, and dutiful youngsters
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1525/9780520968844
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