The Roads of Chinese Childhood : Learning and Identification in Angang
Charles Stafford (Author)
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.
1 online resource (236 pages)
9780511586347, 9780521465748, 9780521026567, 0511586345, 0521465745, 0521026563
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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.