About the Author

Anne Behnke Kinney is Associate Professor of Chinese and Director of the East Asia Center at the University of Virginia.

Reviews

"This first book in English on childhood in early China is a most welcome and path-breaking achievement...It provides a comprehensive analysis of the attitudes toward children represented in historical, philosophical, and literary texts composed by male writers, as well as exciting new documents recently discovered by archaeologists."--Journal of Interdisciplinary History "...Kinney offers sinologists interesting new insights into issues that once seemed all too commonplace but in fact open the way for new understandings of a critical transitional era in Chinese history." - Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies "Kinney's book will obviously be a valuable reference for persons conducting research on children and women, and also...it should appeal to all of us who are interested in early Chinese thought and society." - China Review International "...a tour de force, a distinct contribution to Han studies and to the history of childhood." - H-Net Reviews "This pioneering work is the first scholarly monograph in any language that examines children and adolescents from the beginning of China's historical record until the end of the Han dynasty." - American Historical Review