The Roads of Chinese Childhood

Learning and Identification in Angang

By:

Charles Stafford

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Hardback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology

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Children in the Taiwanese fishing community of Angang have their attention drawn, consciously and unconsciously, to various forms of identification through their participation in schooling, family life and popular religion. They read texts about 'virtuous mothers', share 'meaningful foods' with other villagers, visit the altars of 'divining children' and participate in 'dangerous' god-strengthening rituals. In particular they learn about the family-based cycle of reciprocity, and the tension between this and commitment to the nation. Charles Stafford's study of childhood in this community (with additional material from northeastern mainland China) explores absorbing issues related to nurturance, education, family, kinship and society in its analysis of how children learn, or do not learn, to identify themselves as both familial and Chinese.

Release date Australia

June 30th, 1995

Author

Charles Stafford

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

15 Halftones, unspecified

Pages

234

Series

Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology

Dimensions

152x229x14

ISBN-13

9780521465748

Product ID

1770384

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