Download or read book Legacies of Childhood written by Jon L. Saari and published by Harvard Univ Asia Center. This book was released on 1990 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author draws on autobiographical writings and interviews among the elderly on Taiwan and Hong Kong who were born at the turn of the twentieth century: people who witnessed a society changing from an isolated Confucian society to a nation interacting with and influenced by the West. He interprets this material within its Chinese context but brings in Western sociological, anthropological and psychological insights.