Empowering the Child: Children's Rights, Citizenship and the State in Contemporary China

Naftali, Orna

doi:10.1086/tcj.61.20648046

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“…What the doctor expresses supports Naftali's (2009) point that well-educated mothers are particularly drawn to expert knowledge. In the distinction between mothers with "university degrees" and the "less educated", the latter become incapable of raising "happy and healthy" children.…”

Section: The Competent Mothermentioning

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Practices of Childcare in Urban China - The Making of Competent Mothering in Beijing

Breengaard¹

2015

KKF

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Practices of Childcare in Urban China. The Making of Competent Mothering in BeijingOver the past decades, China's one-child policy and broader modernization project has paved the way for scientific approaches to childcare. While the emphasis on expert-led childcare promotes new practices of mothering, it also acts as a differential between those who are able to carry out these practices and those who are not. Taking its point of departure in the concept of intersectionality and in post-structural theories of subjectification, this article explores how mothers and child professionals in contemporary Beijing draw boundaries between those considered competent and incompetent in childcare. By analysing their stories on infant feeding, the article finds that older generations and rural people are demarcated as lacking new knowledge and thereby positioned as incompetent, while well-educated mothers are positioned as highly competent. However, the article also suggests that these positions are not stable but contain potentials for transformation. KEYWORDS Infant feeding, quality (suzhi), expert-led childcare, motheringMichala Hvidt Breengaard is a PhD fellow at Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen and at the Sino-Danish Centre, a Chinese-Danish research initiative. Her research project explores the practices of mothering that followed the one-child policy in urban China.

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Section: The Competent Mothermentioning

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Practices of Childcare in Urban China - The Making of Competent Mothering in Beijing

Breengaard¹

2015

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“…However, in big cities such as provincial capital city Guangzhou, LPC often initiated dozens of hearings to increase transparency and give the general public an opportunity to participate in lawmaking process. For instance, the LPC plays an active role in policy diffusion on issues such as consumer rights and protection of children in the local community (Cho, 2008;Naftali, 2009;Xia, 2007). Due to tight party control, there is a minimal electoral connection between the elected and those who elect them (Xia, 2007).…”

Section: Local Political Participation In Chinamentioning

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Voting in Local Political Elections by Urban Chinese Middle Class: Does Housing Matter?

Wang

2016

AJSSS

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This paper examines the impact of types of housing on the tendency to engage in neighborhood-level political participation among urban residents in China, using 2005 China General Social Survey. Four types of housing were discussed: commercial housing; previously state-owned (work unit) housing; old neighborhood; and other types of housing (i.e. migration housing). Two indicators of local political participation were presented in the form of Local People's Congress elections and Residents' Committee elections. Using multivariate logistic regression analysis, the authors found that types of housing had strong implications for voting in local elections among Chinese urban residents. First, the likelihood of voting in two local elections was lowest among residents living in commercial housing, and the highest in old neighborhoods. Second, participation in community-led venues (i.e. cultural events) enhanced the voting rate among residents living in commercial housing. Results highlight the importance of the sweeping housing reform in urban neighborhoods to local political participation in contemporary China, and the changing relationship between state and society. Although rapid economic reform has diversified and alienated the neighborhood, community-led civic activities can reunify the residents and enhance their local political participation. This effect was more significant among the young, college-educated, high-income middle class.

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“…However, marketization has intensified social competition, which forces Chinese parents to put pressure on their children, demanding of them not only good academic performance but also non-scholastic accomplishments so as to survive in this competitive environment. Many urban children are thus sent from an early age to after-school classes and extracurricular activities (Kuan 2011;Nafali 2009;Woronov 2007). Equally important, although education in China is still exam-oriented, students are encouraged to join in social activities, especially during the summer vacations, to broaden their experiences; this is considered an important part of the state-sponsored ''quality education'' movement (Kuan 2008).…”

Section: Welfare Institute As a Forum For Family Educationmentioning

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Consuming “the unfortunate”: the violence of philanthropy in a contemporary Chinese state-run orphanage

Qian

2014

Dialect Anthropol

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Empowering the Child: Children's Rights, Citizenship and the State in Contemporary China

Cited by 34 publications

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Practices of Childcare in Urban China - The Making of Competent Mothering in Beijing

Practices of Childcare in Urban China - The Making of Competent Mothering in Beijing

Voting in Local Political Elections by Urban Chinese Middle Class: Does Housing Matter?

Consuming “the unfortunate”: the violence of philanthropy in a contemporary Chinese state-run orphanage

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