Research Fields

• Children, childhood, and youth in the PRC (1949-present)
• Schooling and education in the PRC
• Gender and the family in the PRC
• Youth nationalism and militarization in the PRC
• The rights of children and youth in contemporary China
• Youth legal consciousness in contemporary China

About

Orna Naftali is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is an anthropologist of China, and her research includes  the study of children and youth, schooling and education, gender and the fam... morechildhood and youth, education, gender, and the family in modern and contemporary China.

 

Selected Publications

Children, Rights, and Modernity in China: Raising Self-Governing Citizens (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

 Children in China (Polity Press, 2016).

"'Being Chinese Means Becoming Cheap Labour': Education, National Belonging, and Social Positionality among Youth in Contemporary China". The China Quarterly (2021), 245: 51–71

"Celebrating Violence? Children, Youth, and War Education in Maoist China (1949-76)". Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth (2021), 14 (2): 254-273

 "Youth Military Training in China: Learning to 'Love the Army'". Journal of Youth Studies. Published Online first, 2020, pp. 1-19. 10.1080/13676261.2020.1828847

 

Teaching

B.A.

 

"Class and Consumption in China"

"The Anthropology of Contemporary Chinese Society"

“Internet and the Media in Contemporary China”

"Gender and Sexuality in Modern China"

“Contemporary China"

“Women and Gender in Modern China”

"Education and Politics in China"

M.A.

"Resistance and Protest in Contemporary China"

"The Chinese Family under Revolution and Reform (1900-49)"

"The Family and the State in the People's Republic of China (1949-)"

Research Methods of Modern Chinese Society and Politics”

“Constructions of Modernity in Contemporary China: An Anthropological Perspective”

“State and Society in the PRC: Selected Topics”