SOAS Research Online

Book Chapters

Boretti, Valentina (2025) 'Making Girls and Boys in Twentieth-Century China.' In: Zaborskis, Mary, (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Gender and Childhood. London: Routledge. (Routledge Companions to Gender) (Forthcoming)

Boretti, Valentina (2025) 'Science in the Toy Box: Leisure and the Domestication of Technology in the Republican and Mao Eras.' In: Jackson, Isabella and Geng, Yushu, (eds.), Rethinking Childhood in Modern Chinese History. London: Routledge. (Forthcoming)

Boretti, Valentina (2019) 'Patriotic Fun: Toys and Mobilization in China from the Republican to the Communist Era.' In: Honeck, Mischa and Marten, James, (eds.), War and Childhood in the Era of the Two World Wars. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 17-34. (Publications of the German Historical Institute)

Boretti, Valentina (2018) 'The "Appropriate" Plaything: Searching for the New Chinese Toy, 1910s-1960s.' In: Brandow-Faller, Megan, (ed.), Childhood by Design: Toys and the Material Culture of Childhood, 1700-Present. New York: Bloomsbury, pp. 293-315. (Material Culture of Art and Design)

Journal Article

Boretti, Valentina (2021) 'Instructing Adults, Attracting Children: Toy Displays in Republican China.' Strenae, 17 (6309).

Boretti, Valentina (2016) 'Small Things of Great Importance: Toy Advertising in China, 1910s-1930s.' Asia Pacific Perspectives, 13 (2). pp. 5-48.

Boretti, Valentina (2008) 'Playing for the nation: Kindergarten toys in republican China.' Revista de estudos chineses/Zhongguo yanjiu, 4. pp. 167-180.

Boretti, Valentina (2007) 'Purposeful Leisure: Aspects of Toy Discourse in Republican China.' Princeton University Library Chronicle, 68 (3). pp. 881-908.

Boretti, Valentina (2004) 'The Quasi-Genderless Heresy: The Dhutaists and Master Jizhao.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 67 (3). pp. 349-368.