| Children's Literature and Transnational Knowledge in Modern China: Education, Religion, and Childhood 2019 Edition Contributor(s): Chen, Shih-Wen Sue (Author) |
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ISBN: 9811360820 ISBN-13: 9789811360824 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $94.99 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Children's & Young Adult Literature - History | Asia - China - Language Arts & Disciplines | Publishers & Publishing Industry |
| Dewey: 070.5 |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (1.04 lbs) 251 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Chinese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
