Raising China's Revolutionaries

Margaret Mih Tillman

Margaret Mih Tillman

Raising China's Revolutionaries

Modernizing Childhood for Cosmopolitan Nationalists and Liberated Comrades, 1920s-1950s

In: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Columbia University Press | 2018

https://doi.org/10.7312/till18558

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Margaret Mih Tillman offers a novel perspective on the political and scientific dimensions of experiments with early childhood education. Raising China’s Revolutionaries is an important work of institutional and transnational history that illuminates the evolution of modern concepts of childhood in twentieth-century China.

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TillmanMargaret Mih:

Margaret Tillman is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Purdue University. She has published articles in the Taiwan Journal of East Asian Studies, New Frontiers in Chinese History, Cross-Currents, and Oriens Extremus, among other publications.Margaret Mih Tillman is assistant professor of history at Purdue University.

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Ying-shih Yu, Professor Emeritus, Princeton University, co-winner of the John W. Kluge Prize and the inaugural winner of the Tang Prize:
Since the late Qing there had been a general belief among Chinese revolutionaries and reformers that China’s modernization must begin with the construction of a modern childhood. As a result, a great variety of ideas and institutions were proposed and developed in the realm of child education from the 1930s to the 1950s. This book, Raising China’s Revolutionaries, is a rigorous and vivid account of this important historical development based on the author’s comprehensive and penetrating study of the numerous archival and other primary sources as well as her personal experiences as a visiting preschooler in the Chinese system.

Thomas O. Höllmann, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich:
Informative, instructive, inspiring. Margaret Mih Tillman's book is an important contribution to the research of childhood socialization in modern China.

Robert Culp, Bard College:
Margaret Tillman has written an excellent book. Raising China's Revolutionaries demonstrates how policies regarding childcare and child welfare were central to the formation of the modern Chinese state, and suggests how the mobilization and deployment of aid and care facilitated elite professionalization and formation of a range of social institutions that had lasting relevance. The book promises to intervene with great impact in a number of different historiographical debates in the China field and global history more broadly.

Frontmatter Free access PDF PDF	i
Contents Free access PDF PDF	ix
Preface Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	xi
Acknowledgments Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	xv
Abbreviations in Text Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	xix
Introduction Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	1
PART I The Science of Sentiment
I Child Study in Chinese Kindergartens: Chen Heqin’s Approach to “Family Education” Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	29
II Cherishing Children: The National Child Welfare Association in the Nanjing Decade, 1928– 1937 Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	53
III The Calculus of Child Welfare: The Democratization of Fundraising for Shanghai, 1937– 1942 Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	79
PART II Child Experts and the Chinese State
IV Wartime Paternalisms: Mobilizing Child Advocacy for the State Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	105
V Contested Service: Building a National Social Welfare Program in the Civil War, 1945– 1949 Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	131
VI The Reeducation of Child Experts: Chen Heqin as a Model of Self- Criticism Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	160
VII Women’s Mobilization and Childcare for the Masses: Collective Childcare in the 1950s Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	187
Conclusion Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	210
Character List (as identified in text) Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	225
Notes Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	231
References Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	297
Index Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	321

Raising China's Revolutionaries

Modernizing Childhood for Cosmopolitan Nationalists and Liberated Comrades, 1920s-1950s

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