THE GOOD CHILD: Moral Development in a Chinese Preschool

摘要

This book examines school and parental strategies for raising moral children, as well as the children's reactions to these efforts. The children attend a preschool in central Shanghai and are mostly upper-middle-class Shanghai residents of Han ethnicity between the ages of two and five. Jing Xu combines the disciplinary approaches of sociocultural anthropology and developmental psychology. She integrates literature from both disciplines, uses ethnographic research methods as well as surveys and psychological experiments, and makes arguments about how the cultural and social environment of China and Shanghai influence moral educational efforts as well as the cognitive development of young children in general.