| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.2

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.2 | The History Cooperative

Ping-chen Hsiung. A Tender Voyage: Children and Childhood in Late Imperial China. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2005. Pp. xvi, 351. $70.00.
For the past twenty years, Ping-chen Hsiung has been studying and publishing pioneering Chinese-language studies on childhood in China. She has now assembled eight English-language essays on children and childhood in late imperial China (roughly 1600–1900), taken from conference papers and lectures she has given in the recent past. The resulting book sheds much new light on this important subject.	1
In her introduction, "Children and Childhood in Traditional China," Hsiung places her work within the framework of Western studies of childhood, starting with the classic work of Philippe Ariès. She notes that the Chinese case calls into question Ariès's assertion that the very notion of childhood is a modern invention. From at least the Southern Song period (1161–1279), pediatric medicine became a specialized field in China, and Neo-Confucian philosophers paid systematic attention to the education and character formation of the young.	. . .

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