1st Edition
Youth in Chinese History Educational Practices and Representations of Children and Young People Between Tradition and Modernity
Section 1: Educating through Words: Transcultural Transmission of Theories, Concepts and Texts
1. Dialogues of Knowledge: Jesuit Liberal Arts Within Chinese Traditions of Early Learning in Late Imperial China
Linda Chu
2. When Aesop Became a Chinese Language Teacher: Robert Thom’s Yishi yuyan 意拾喻言, Its Pedagogical Agenda and Legacy in Modern China
Giulia Falato
3. Replicating, Rewriting, and Reinventing Youth: A Transcultural Analysis of Shanghai Commercial Press’ Zuixin guowen jiaokeshu 最新國文教科書
Xinyi Shui
Section 2: Adapting Educational Practices to Reality: Pragmatism, Life and Social Change
4. Children’s Journey through Life and Death in Premodern China: A Brief Survey on Protective Rituals, Ghostly Realms, and Education
Arianna Magnani
5. Ye Shengtao’s Early Perspective on Education: A Reading of Xiaoxue jiaoyu de gaizao 小學教育的改造 (1919)
Giuseppe Rizzuto
6. Tradition Rewritten. Bao Tianxiao’s Textual Strategies and the Education of Young Women
Daniele Beltrame
Section 3: Representing Childhood and Youth: Lyrics, Visual Culture and the Making of the Young
7. Childhood and Youth in Poetry from the Tang Dynasty (618–907)
Kerstin Storm
8. Visualising Childhood and Youth in Late Qing China: Images, Readership, and Education in the Dianshizhai huabao 點石齋畫報 (1884–1898)
Renata Vinci
9. Forging the Young Body: Health, Discipline and Children in the New Life Movement (1934–1937)
Henan Tang
Biography
Giulia Falato is Associate Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at the University of Parma, Italy.
Renata Vinci is Associate Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at the University of Palermo, Italy.
