{"product_id":"childs-play-9780520296275","title":"Childs Play","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFew 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about bullying in schools, child poverty, child suicides, violent crimes committed by children, the rise of socially withdrawn youngsters, and forceful moves by the government to introduce a more conservative educational curriculum.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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The editors achieve the cited aim of re-orienting discourse about childhood by considering new, worthwhile and important perspectives from Asia.\" * New Books Asia *\u003cbr\u003e\"Taken together, this volume’s essays make a forceful argument for the continued relevance of childhood studies within the fi eld of Japan studies.\" * Journal of Japanese Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations and Table\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART ONE: Premodern Period\u003cbr\u003e 1. Nasty Boys or Obedient Children?: Childhood and Relative Autonomy in Medieval Japanese Monasteries\u003cbr\u003e Or Porath\u003cbr\u003e 2. Growing Up Manly: Male Samurai Childhood in Late Edo-Era Tosa\u003cbr\u003e Luke S. Roberts\u003cbr\u003e 3. For the Love of Children: Practice, Affect, and Subjectivities in Hirata Atsutane’s Household\u003cbr\u003e Anne Walthall\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART TWO: Early Twentieth Century\u003cbr\u003e 4. Consumer Consumption for Children: Conceptions of Childhood in the Work of Taisho-Period Designers\u003cbr\u003e Jinno Yuki\u003cbr\u003e 5. “Children in the Wind”: Reexamining the Golden Age of Childhood Film in Wartime Japan\u003cbr\u003e Harald Salomon\u003cbr\u003e 6. Children and the Founding of Manchukuo: The Young Girl Ambassadors as Promoters of Friendship\u003cbr\u003e Koresawa Hiroaki\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART THREE: Asia-Pacific War\u003cbr\u003e 7. Reversing the Gaze: The Construction of “Adulthood” in the Wartime Diaries of Japanese Children and Youth\u003cbr\u003e Aaron William Moore\u003cbr\u003e 8. Outdoor Play in Wartime Japan\u003cbr\u003e L. Halliday Piel\u003cbr\u003e 9. “ . . . And my heart screams”: Children and the War of Emotions\u003cbr\u003e Sabine Fru¨hstu¨ck\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART FOUR: Contemporary Japan\u003cbr\u003e 10. From Grade Schooler to Great Star: Childhood Development and the “Golden Age” in the World of Japanese Soccer\u003cbr\u003e Elise Edwards\u003cbr\u003e 11. Treatment and Intervention for Children with Developmental Disabilities\u003cbr\u003e Junko Teruyama\u003cbr\u003e 12. Food, Affect, and Experiments in Care: Constituting a “Household-like” Child Welfare Institution in Japan\u003cbr\u003e Kathryn E. Goldfarb\u003cbr\u003e 13. Monju-kun: Children’s Culture as Protest\u003cbr\u003e Noriko Manabe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402897138007,"sku":"9780520296275","price":32.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/childs-play-9780520296275","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}