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The Roads of Chinese Childhood Charles Stafford (University of Cambridge)

The Roads of Chinese Childhood By Charles Stafford (University of Cambridge)

The Roads of Chinese Childhood by Charles Stafford (University of Cambridge)

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This 1995 book describes learning and the process of childhood in Angang, a fishing community in south-eastern Taiwan, and the ways in which children learn, consciously and unconsciously, about forms of identification both as children within the family and as citizens of the nation.

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The Roads of Chinese Childhood: Learning and Identification in Angang by Charles Stafford (University of Cambridge)

Children in the Taiwanese fishing community of Angang have their attention drawn, consciously and unconsciously, to various forms of identification through their participation in schooling, family life and popular religion. They read texts about 'virtuous mothers', share 'meaningful foods' with other villagers, visit the altars of 'divining children' and participate in 'dangerous' god-strengthening rituals. In particular they learn about the family-based cycle of reciprocity, and the tension between this and commitment to the nation. Charles Stafford's 1995 study of childhood in this community (with additional material from north-eastern mainland China) explores absorbing issues related to nurturance, education, family, kinship and society in its analysis of how children learn, or do not learn, to identify themselves as both familial and Chinese.

The Roads of Chinese Childhood Reviews

Stafford is to be congratulated for bringing original insights into the key question of what Taiwanese children learn and how they learn it. Taiwan/China specialists, comparative students of childhood experience, and those seeking a clear, lively recent survey of working-class life in rural taiwan will find this an attractive book. American Journal of Sociology
A particular strength of the book is its description of how traditional Confucian values of filial piety are taught and learned....this book is definetly worth close study. The novice to Chinese culture, as well as those scholars who specialize in China, will find much of interest and importance in this work. Nancy Abelmann, American Anthropologist
The comparative notes to childhood oin northeastern China which form the epilogue are particularly insightful. This book will prove valuable to scholars and students of all cultures because of its concise study of the way children are given an introduction and education into their religious and traditional background. Linda L. Lam-Easton, Religious Studies Review

Table of Contents

List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I. Background: Introduction: 1. Two roads; Part II. Angang: 2. Ghosts are not connexions; 3. The proper way of being a person; 4. Textbook mothers and frugal children; 5. Red envelopes and the cycle of yang; 6. Going forward bravely; 7. Divining children; 8. Dangerous rituals; 9. Conclusion; Part III. Epilogue: 10. Notes on childhood in northeastern China; Notes; Glossary; References; Index.

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NPB9780521465748
9780521465748
0521465745
The Roads of Chinese Childhood: Learning and Identification in Angang by Charles Stafford (University of Cambridge)
Charles Stafford (University of Cambridge)
Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
New
Hardback
Cambridge University Press
1995-06-30
234
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