Children as Treasures: Childhood and the Middle Class in Early Twentieth Century Japan

by Mark Jones

Mark Jones examines the making of a new child's world in Japan between 1890 and 1930 and focuses on the institutions, groups, and individuals that reshaped both the idea of childhood and the daily life of children. Family reformers, scientific child experts, magazine editors, well-educated mothers, and other prewar urban elites constructed a model of childhood--having one's own room, devoting time to homework, reading children's literature, playing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674053346
• ISBN13: 9780674053342
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.0"