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What is childhood? In recent years, a cluster of critical and complex ideas have emerged around the nature of biological, social and psychological ...

This popular book provides a compelling introduction to thinking about childhood in rigorous and critical ways. Karen Wells offers a unique global ...

This popular book provides a compelling introduction to thinking about childhood in rigorous and critical ways. Karen Wells offers a unique global ...

What does it mean to think of children as social subjects and how should we go about studying childhood in society? Childhood is a key site where c...

What does it mean to think of children as social subjects and how should we go about studying childhood in society? Childhood is a key site where c...

There are insights of interest and value to all in these pages. This book develops a fresh and insightful approach to the questions of children and...

Is the internet really transforming children and young people’s lives? Is the so-called ‘digital generation’ genuinely benefiting from exciting new...

Is the internet really transforming children and young people’s lives? Is the so-called ‘digital generation’ genuinely benefiting from exciting new...

Chinese childhood is undergoing a major transformation. This book explores how government policies introduced in China over the last few decades an...

Chinese childhood is undergoing a major transformation. This book explores how government policies introduced in China over the last few decades an...

This compelling new book explores the complexities of the global child sex industry, but without falling into cliché and melodrama. Julia O'Connell...

China is poised to become the world's largest economy in the next decade. But its great struggle to modernise has been one of tragedy, conflict, an...

China is poised to become the world's largest economy in the next decade. But its great struggle to modernise has been one of tragedy, conflict, an...

China has gone from being a marginal to a leading power in Africa in just over two decades. Its striking ascendancy in the continent is commonly th...

China has gone from being a marginal to a leading power in Africa in just over two decades. Its striking ascendancy in the continent is commonly th...

China and India are becoming increasingly influential, powerful and prominent countries – but what kind of states do their leaders and people wish ...

China and India are becoming increasingly influential, powerful and prominent countries – but what kind of states do their leaders and people wish ...

With many predicting the end of US hegemony, Russia and China's growing cooperation in a number of key strategic areas looks set to have a major im...

With many predicting the end of US hegemony, Russia and China's growing cooperation in a number of key strategic areas looks set to have a major im...

Relations between Taiwan and the People�s Republic of China have oscillated between outright hostility and wary detente ever since the Archipelago ...

Relations between Taiwan and the People�s Republic of China have oscillated between outright hostility and wary detente ever since the Archipelago ...

This concise and timely book, written by one of the world's leading authorities on China, argues that the country is at a crossroads in its develop...

This concise and timely book, written by one of the world's leading authorities on China, argues that the country is at a crossroads in its develop...

What does it mean for the future of the planet when one of the world’s most durable authoritarian governance systems pursues “ecological civilizati...