The Good ChildChinese academic traditions take zuo renself fulfillment in terms of moral cultivationas the ultimate goal of education. To many in contemporary China, however, the nation seems gripped by moral decay, the result of rapid and profound social change over the course of the twentieth century. Placing Chinese children, alternately seen as China's greatest hope and derided as self centered "little emperors," at the center of her analysis, Jing Xu