The Good Child: Moral Development in a Chinese Preschool

by Jing Xu

Book Overview

Chinese academic traditions take zuo ren--self-fulfillment in terms of moral cultivation--as the ultimate goal of education. To many in contemporary China, however, the nation seems gripped by moral decay, the result of rapid and profound social change over the course of the twentieth century. Placing Chinese children, alternately seen as China's greatest hope and derided as self-centered "little emperors," at the center of her analysis,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503602435
• ISBN13: 9781503602434
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"