Abstract：In modern China, studies on the history of childhood fall into the following four categories: studies on childhood education, which includes domestic education, overseas education, some famous educationists' educational thought, the Scouts, etc., studies on children protection, which mainly focuses on childcare, child refugee, infanticide and child laborer, studies on the acknowledgement of children, which mainly includes literature, books, journals and views on children, and studies on children per se, which includes studies on children behavior and affairs, adults' narrations of childhood memory.Compared with the former three categories, studies on children per se are much fewer.The above shows that studies on childeren per se is the weakness of childhood history, futher studies on this aspect should be the focus in the future'.

Keyword：the history of childhood;modern China;interdisciplinary study;