Child's Play

Multi-Sensory Histories of Children and Childhood in Japan

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

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about bullying in schools, child poverty, child suicides, violent crimes committed by children, the rise of socially withdrawn youngsters, and forceful moves by the government to introduce a more conservative educational curriculum.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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-10-10
Mått:152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:314
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520296275

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Asiens historia inom Historia och arkeologi

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Sabine Fruhstuck is Professor of Modern Japanese Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her publications include Colonizing Sex: Sexology and Social Control in Modern Japan and Uneasy Warriors: Gender, Memory and Popular Culture in the Japanese Army. Anne Walthall is Professor Emerita of Japanese History at the University of California, Irvine. Her publications include Social Protest and Popular Culture in Eighteenth-Century Japan, Peasant Uprisings in Japan: A Critical Anthology of Peasant Histories, The Weak Body of a Useless Woman: Matsuo Taseko and the Meiji Restoration, and Japan: A Cultural, Social, and Political History.

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"The editors achieve the cited aim of re-orienting discourse about childhood by considering new, worthwhile and important perspectives from Asia."

Innehållsförteckning

List of Illustrations and TableAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPART ONE: Premodern Period1. Nasty Boys or Obedient Children?: Childhood and Relative Autonomy in Medieval Japanese MonasteriesOr Porath2. Growing Up Manly: Male Samurai Childhood in Late Edo-Era TosaLuke S. Roberts3. For the Love of Children: Practice, Affect, and Subjectivities in Hirata Atsutane’s HouseholdAnne WalthallPART TWO: Early Twentieth Century4. Consumer Consumption for Children: Conceptions of Childhood in the Work of Taisho-Period DesignersJinno Yuki5. “Children in the Wind”: Reexamining the Golden Age of Childhood Film in Wartime JapanHarald Salomon6. Children and the Founding of Manchukuo: The Young Girl Ambassadors as Promoters of FriendshipKoresawa HiroakiPART THREE: Asia-Pacific War7. Reversing the Gaze: The Construction of “Adulthood” in the Wartime Diaries of Japanese Children and YouthAaron William Moore8. Outdoor Play in Wartime JapanL. Halliday Piel9. “ . . . And my heart screams”: Children and the War of EmotionsSabine Fru¨hstu¨ckPART FOUR: Contemporary Japan10. From Grade Schooler to Great Star: Childhood Development and the “Golden Age” in the World of Japanese SoccerElise Edwards11. Treatment and Intervention for Children with Developmental DisabilitiesJunko Teruyama12. Food, Affect, and Experiments in Care: Constituting a “Household-like” Child Welfare Institution in JapanKathryn E. Goldfarb13. Monju-kun: Children’s Culture as ProtestNoriko ManabeContributorsIndex