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Article: Representation of Childhood and Youth in Early China.(Book review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- September 22, 2006
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Representation of Childhood and Youth in Early China. By Anne Behnke Kinney (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. vii plus 294 pp.).
The study of Chinese childhood is a fairly new field. Earlier, in 2002 Anne Kinney published an edited book, The Chinese View of Childhood (University of Hawaii Press), which covers eleven articles on Chinese childhood from the early to modern period. Representation of Childhood and Youth in Early China focuses on childhood in early China, particularly Han China, with emphasis on the Former Han dynasty. Using the dynastic history (Shiji and Hanshu), newly excavated legal fragments and other documents from the tombs of Han and ...