Science in the Toy Box: Leisure and the Domestication of Technology in the Republican and Mao Eras (2025)
Book Chapter
Boretti, V. (in press). Science in the Toy Box: Leisure and the Domestication of Technology in the Republican and Mao Eras. In I. Jackson, & Y. Geng (Eds.), Rethinking Childhood in Modern Chinese History. Routledge

Making Girls and Boys in Twentieth-Century China (2025)
Book Chapter
Boretti, V. (2025). Making Girls and Boys in Twentieth-Century China. In M. Zaborskis (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Gender and Childhood (165-178). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003431923-17

This chapter explores the making of girls and boys in twentieth-century China, utilizing sources produced between the 1910s and the 1970s. Prescribing how to raise or educate “new” subjects, these materials outlined the ideal child persona: the rescu... Read More about Making Girls and Boys in Twentieth-Century China.