@prefix _12: . @prefix _13: . @prefix _14: . @prefix _15: . @prefix _16: . @prefix _17: . @prefix dc: . @prefix dcterms: . @prefix model: . @prefix ore: . @prefix owl: . @prefix rdf: . @prefix rdfs: . @prefix rdfs1: . @prefix rel: . @prefix sioc: . @prefix view: . @prefix xml: . _13:ac4d436e-63a4-42ce-b2df-f3edb1c556f3 a model:FedoraObject; dc:creator "Chang, Lily", "Mitter, Rana"; dc:date "2011"; dc:description "This thesis is not currently available via ORA.", """“Contested Childhoods” links together three major areas of historical inquiry: war and criminality, law and social change, and the law as it relates to children, in the first half of twentieth-century China. The founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949 has eclipsed the historical significance of Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist Government and the importance of its role during the wartime period. This study examines how the outbreak of China’s War of Resistance against Japan (1937-1945) served as a crucial catalyst to the construction of ideas of criminality and its relation to children during the wartime period. It examines the different measures by which Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist Government (1928-1949) attempted to handle the rise in levels of criminality involving juveniles. The study analyses how an increase in criminality during the wartime period challenged how ideas on and about children and childhood were in understood within Chinese society. Moreover, it argues that wartime conditions served as a crucial catalyst prompted the construction of a new judicial and legal framework that was aimed at delineating the boundaries between childhood and adulthood during this period. """; dc:format "born digital"; dc:identifier "ora:6495", "urn:uuid:ac4d436e-63a4-42ce-b2df-f3edb1c556f3"; dc:language "en"; dc:subject "China's War of Resistance Against Japan", "Chinese", "History of Asia & Far East", "History of childhood", "Japanese", "Kuomintang Government", "Socio-legal studies", "childhood", "law and society"; dc:title "Contested childhoods: law and social deviance in wartime China, 1937-1945"; dc:type "text", "thesis"; rdfs1:isDefinedBy ; model:createdDate "2012-10-05T11:05:03.843Z"^^; model:hasContentModel _16:DefaultContentModel-1; model:label "ora:6495"; model:ownerId "fedoraAdmin"; model:state model:Active; rel:isMemberOf _14:thesis; rel:isMemberOfCollection _15:thesis; view:disseminates _17:CITATION, _17:DC, _17:EVENT, _17:MARC21, _17:MODS, _17:RELS-EXT; view:lastModifiedDate "2012-10-05T11:05:07.48Z"^^. a ore:resourceMap.