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Child’s play multi-sensory histories of children and childhood in Japan

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about bullying in schools, child poverty, child suicides, violent crimes committed by children, the rise of socially withdrawn youngsters, and forceful moves by the government to introduce a more conservative educational curriculum.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

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305.230952 CHI c

Publisher

Californa : University of California Press., 2017

Collation

314 p.; 22 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780520968844

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305.230952

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Children--Social conditions
Children's Education

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Edited by Sabine Frühstück and Anne Walthall

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