Children S Literature And Transnational Knowledge In Modern China

Author : Shih-Wen Sue Chen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789811360831

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Children’s Literature and Transnational Knowledge in Modern China by Shih-Wen Sue Chen Pdf

This book examines the development of Chinese children’s literature from the late Qing to early Republican era. It highlights the transnational flows of knowledge, texts, and cultures during a time when children’s literature in China and the West was developing rapidly. Drawing from a rich archive of periodicals, novels, tracts, primers, and textbooks, the author analyzes how Chinese children’s literature published by Protestant missionaries and Chinese educators in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries presented varying notions of childhood. In this period of dramatic transition from the dynastic Qing empire to the new Republican China, young readers were offered different models of childhood, some of which challenged dominant Confucian ideas of what it meant to be a child. This volume sheds new light on a little-explored aspect of Chinese literary history. Through its contributions to the fields of children’s literature, book history, missionary history, and translation studies, it enhances our understanding of the negotiations between Chinese and Western cultures that shaped the publication and reception of Chinese texts for children.

Author : Mary Ann Farquhar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317475071

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Children's Literature in China: From Lu Xun to Mao Zedong by Mary Ann Farquhar Pdf

This book introduces the major works and debates in Chinese children's literature within the framework of China's revolution and modernization. It demonstrates that the guiding rationale in children's literature was the political importance of children as the nation's future.

Author : Claudia Nelson,Rebecca Morris
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317065975

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Representing Children in Chinese and U.S. Children's Literature by Claudia Nelson,Rebecca Morris Pdf

Bringing together children’s literature scholars from China and the United States, this collection provides an introduction to the scope and goals of a field characterized by active but also distinctive scholarship in two countries with very different rhetorical traditions. The volume’s five sections highlight the differences between and overlapping concerns of Chinese and American scholars, as they examine children’s literature with respect to cultural metaphors and motifs, historical movements, authorship, didacticism, important themes, and the current status of and future directions for literature and criticism. Wide-ranging and admirably ambitious in its encouragement of communication between scholars from two major nations, Representing Children in Chinese and U.S. Children’s Literature serves as a model for examining how and why children’s literature, more than many literary forms, circulates internationally.

Author : Claudia Nelson,Elisabeth Wesseling,Andrea Mei-Ying Wu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000984521

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The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature and Culture by Claudia Nelson,Elisabeth Wesseling,Andrea Mei-Ying Wu Pdf

Focusing on significant and cutting-edge preoccupations within children’s literature scholarship, The Routledge Companion to Children’s Literature and Culture presents a comprehensive overview of print, digital, and electronic texts for children aged zero to thirteen as forms of world literature participating in a panoply of identity formations. Offering five distinct sections, this volume: Familiarizes students and beginning scholars with key concepts and methodological resources guiding contemporary inquiry into children’s literature Describes the major media formats and genres for texts expressly addressing children Considers the production, distribution, and valuing of children’s books from an assortment of historical and contemporary perspectives, highlighting context as a driver of content Maps how children’s texts have historically presumed and prescribed certain identities on the part of their readers, sometimes addressing readers who share some part of the author’s identity, sometimes seeking to educate the reader about a presumed “other,” and in recent decades increasingly foregrounding identities once lacking visibility and voice Explores the historical evolutions and trans-regional contacts and (inter)connections in the long process of the formation of global children’s literature, highlighting issues such as retranslation, transnationalism, transculturality, and new digital formats for considering cultural crossings and renegotiations in the production of children’s literature Methodically presented and contextualized, this volume is an engaging introduction to this expanding and multifaceted field.

Author : Shih-Wen Sue Chen,Sin Wen Lau
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000624472

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Representations of Children and Success in Asia by Shih-Wen Sue Chen,Sin Wen Lau Pdf

This edited volume explores how success is conceptualized and represented in texts for young people in Asia. The essays in this collection examine how success for children relates to education, family, gender, race, class, community, and the nation. It answers the following questions: How is success for children represented in literature, cinema, and popular media? In what ways are these images grounded in the historical, political, and cultural contexts in which they are produced and consumed? How does childhood agency influence ideas about success in Asia? Highlighting the similarities and differences in how success is defined for children and young adults in Japan, South Korea, People’s Republic of China, Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia, Vietnam, and India, this volume argues that success is an important keyword in the literary and cultural study of childhood in Asia.

Author : Yukari Takimoto Amos,Daniel Miles Amos
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Children
ISBN : 1475843682

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Children's Literature from Asia in Today's Classrooms by Yukari Takimoto Amos,Daniel Miles Amos Pdf

This book provides readers with interpretation guides and practical ideas for making use of Asian international children's literature in the classroom. Part I discusses how to authentically read children's literature from India, Thailand, China and Japan. Part II consists of annotated bibliographies of international children's literature from Asia.

Author : Orna Naftali
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781509505944

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Children in China by Orna Naftali Pdf

Chinese childhood is undergoing a major transformation. This book explores how government policies introduced in China over the last few decades and processes of social and economic change are reshaping the lives of children and the meanings of childhood in complex, contradictory ways. Drawing on a broad range of literature and original ethnographic research, Naftali explores the rise of new ideas of child-care, child-vulnerability and child-agency; the impact of the One-Child Policy; and the emergence of children as independent consumers in the new market economy. She shows that Chinese boys and increasingly girls, too are enjoying a new empowerment, a development that has met with ambiguity and resistance from both caregivers and the state. She also demonstrates how economic restructuring and the recent waves of rural/urban migration have produced starkly unequal conditions for children’s education and development both in the countryside and in the cities. Children in China is essential reading for students and scholars seeking a deeper understanding of what it means to be a child in contemporary China, as well as for those concerned with the changing relationship between children, the state and the family in the global era.

Author : Shih-Wen Chen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Children's stories, English
ISBN : 1315605430

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Representations of China in British Children's Fiction, 1851-1911 by Shih-Wen Chen Pdf

Author : Yukari Takimoto Amos,Daniel Miles Amos
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475836912

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(Mis)Reading Different Cultures by Yukari Takimoto Amos,Daniel Miles Amos Pdf

The book provides relevant theoretical and empirical research findings to address the challenges teachers face when interpreting and teaching with international children’s literature from Asia. Strategies are provided relating to how teachers can be more culturally conscious of their own biases and develop culturally appropriate interpretations.

Author : David Der-wei Wang
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 1033 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674967915

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A New Literary History of Modern China by David Der-wei Wang Pdf

Featuring over 140 Chinese and non-Chinese contributors, this landmark volume, edited by David Der-wei Wang, explores unconventional forms as well as traditional genres, emphasizes Chinese authors’ influence on foreign writers as well as China’s receptivity to outside literary influences, and offers vibrant contrasting voices and points of view.

Author : Jianhua Yao
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780739186657

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Knowledge Workers in Contemporary China by Jianhua Yao Pdf

Knowledge Workers in Contemporary China: Reform, and Resistance in the Publishing Industry concentrates on the trajectories of the labor process transformation of knowledge workers, mainly editors, in the Chinese publishing industry. The book focuses on their changing social, economic, and political roles; their dilemmas, challenges, and opportunities associated with current social reform; and China’s integration into the global political economy. At its core, the book addresses three different yet interrelated processes of the political economy of communication: commodification, structuration, and spatialization in the Chinese publishing industry. It examines whether worker organizations and trade unions are effective in presenting editors’ legitimate rights and interests in current publishing reform. Through the political economic analysis of knowledge workers in China’s publishing industry, Jianhua Yao helps readers better understand the broader social and economic transformations, specifically the network of power relations and institutional contexts in which Chinese editors are situated, that have been taking place in China since the late 1970s.

Author : Andrew F. Jones
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674047952

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Developmental Fairy Tales by Andrew F. Jones Pdf

In 1992 Deng Xiaoping famously declared, “Development is the only hard imperative.” What ensued was the transformation of China from a socialist state to a capitalist market economy. The spirit of development has since become the prevailing creed of the People’s Republic, helping to bring about unprecedented modern prosperity, but also creating new forms of poverty, staggering social upheaval, physical dislocation, and environmental destruction. In Developmental Fairy Tales, Andrew F. Jones asserts that the groundwork for this recent transformation was laid in the late nineteenth century, with the translation of the evolutionary works of Lamarck, Darwin, and Spencer into Chinese letters. He traces the ways that the evolutionary narrative itself evolved into a form of vernacular knowledge which dissolved the boundaries between beast and man and reframed childhood development as a recapitulation of civilizational ascent, through which a beleaguered China might struggle for existence and claim a place in the modern world-system. This narrative left an indelible imprint on China’s literature and popular media, from children’s primers to print culture, from fairy tales to filmmaking. Jones’s analysis offers an innovative and interdisciplinary angle of vision on China’s cultural evolution. He focuses especially on China’s foremost modern writer and public intellectual, Lu Xun, in whose work the fierce contradictions of his generation’s developmentalist aspirations became the stuff of pedagogical parable. Developmental Fairy Tales revises our understanding of literature’s role in the making of modern China by revising our understanding of developmentalism’s role in modern Chinese literature.

Author : Caryn Jenner
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-19
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780756692162

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DK Readers L3: Welcome to China by Caryn Jenner Pdf

Adventurous young readers will get a whirlwind tour of the world's biggest country with this book about China, taking a look at its people, its landscape, its culture, and what the future holds. Read about the Great Wall, the Yangtze River, and more! Stunning photographs combine with lively illustrations and engaging, age-appropriate stories in DK Readers, a multilevel reading program guaranteed to capture children's interest while developing their reading skills and general knowledge. With DK Readers, children will learn to read—then read to learn!

Author : Hong Liu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000508000

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The Political Economy of Transnational Governance by Hong Liu Pdf

The past two decades have witnessed far-reaching socioeconomic and political changes in Asia, such as the growing intraregional flows of capital, goods, people, and knowledge, the rise of China as the world’s second largest economy, and its increasing influence in Southeast Asia, intensified US–China confrontations in the global arena, and the onslaught of the global Covid-19 pandemic. Focusing on multidimensional interactions (including geopolitical and economic relationships, diaspora engagement, and knowledge exchange) between China and Southeast Asia, this book argues that an interwoven perspective of the political economy, transnational governance, and regional networks serves as an effective analytical framework for deciphering these transformations as well as their global and theoretical implications. Drawing upon a wide range of primary data and engaging with the latest interdisciplinary scholarship on contemporary Asia, this book’s thought-provoking and nuanced analyses will appeal to scholars and students in Chinese and Southeast Asian studies, international political economy, international relationships, ethnic and migration studies, and public governance.

Author : Simone Lässig,Andreas Weiß
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789202793

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The World of Children by Simone Lässig,Andreas Weiß Pdf

In an era of rapidly increasing technological advances and international exchange, how did young people come to understand the world beyond their doorsteps? Focusing on Germany through the lens of the history of knowledge, this collection explores various media for children—from textbooks, adventure stories, and other literature to board games, museums, and cultural events—to probe what they aimed to teach young people about different cultures and world regions. These multifaceted contributions from specialists in historical, literary, and cultural studies delve into the ways that children absorbed, combined, and adapted notions of the world.