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RepResenting ChildRen in Chinese and U.s. ChildRen’s liteRatURe 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. ashgate studies in Childhood, 1700 to the present Series Editor: Claudia Nelson, Texas A&M University, USA this series recognizes and supports innovative work on the child and on literature for children and adolescents that informs teaching and engages with current and emerging debates in the field. Proposals are welcome for interdisciplinary and comparative studies by humanities scholars working in a variety of fields, including literature; book history, periodicals history, and print culture and the sociology of texts; theater, film, musicology, and performance studies; history, including the history of education; gender studies; art history and visual culture; cultural studies; and religion. topics might include, among other possibilities, how concepts and representations of the child have changed in response to adult concerns; postcolonial and transnational perspectives; “domestic imperialism” and the acculturation of the young within and across class and ethnic lines; the commercialization of childhood and children’s bodies; views of young people as consumers and/or originators of culture; the child and religious discourse; children’s and adolescents’ self-representations; and adults’ recollections of childhood. also in the series Female Rebellion in Young Adult Dystopian Fiction edited by sara K. day, Miranda a. green-Barteet, and amy l. Montz Empire, Education, and Indigenous Childhoods Nineteenth-Century Missionary Infant Schools in Three British Colonies helen May, Baljit Kaur, and larry prochner Children’s Games in the New Media Age Childlore, Media and the Playground edited by andrew Burn and Chris Richards The Making of Modern Children’s Literature in Britain Publishing and Criticism in the 1960s and 1970s lucy pearson Representing Children in Chinese and U.s. Children’s literature edited by ClaUdia nelson and ReBeCCa MoRRis Texas A&M University, USA © Claudia nelson and Rebecca Morris, and the contributors 2014 all rights reserved. no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Claudia nelson and Rebecca Morris have asserted their right under the Copyright, designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work. published by ashgate publishing limited ashgate publishing Company Wey Court east 110 Cherry street Union Road suite 3-1 Farnham Burlington, Vt 05401-3818 surrey, gU9 7pt Usa england www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data a catalogue record for this book is available from the British library The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows: Representing children in Chinese and U.s. children’s literature / edited by Claudia nelson and Rebecca Morris. pages cm. -- (ashgate studies in Childhood, 1700 to the present) includes index. isBn 978-1-4724-2421-1 (hardcover) -- isBn 978-1-4724-2422-8 (ebook) -- isBn 978-1-4724-2423-5 (epub) 1. Children’s literature, Chinese--history and criti- cism. 2. Children’s literature, american--history and criticism. 3. Children in literature. i. nelson, Claudia. ii. Morris, Rebecca. pl2449.R47 2014 895.109’9282--dc23 2014017437 isBn: 9781472424211 (hbk) isBn: 9781472424228 (ebk – pdF) isBn: 9781472424235 (ebk – epUB) V printed in the United Kingdom by henry ling limited, at the dorset press, dorchester, dt1 1hd Contents List of Illustrations ix Notes on Contributors xi Acknowledgments and Textual Note xvii Introduction 1 Claudia Nelson and Rebecca Morris Section i: theorizing children’S literature: Journey aS Metaphor and Motif 1 Images of Growth: Embodied Metaphors in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 11 Roberta Seelinger Trites 2 Identifying the “Motif ” in a Country’s Image of Children: Research on Children’s Issues in the Ming Dynasty, a Cultural Critique and Interpretation of Formulated Developmental Strategies 21 Ban Ma, translated by Lin Aimei Section ii: chineSe children’S literature and the May fourth MoveMent 3 On the Image of Children and the Three Stages of Transformation in 100 Years of Chinese Children’s Literature 35 Wang Quangen, translated by Jiang Qian 4 The Originality of Lu Xun’s Views of Children and China’s Modern Image of Children 47 Xu Yan, translated by Chi Xin 5 The Discovery of Children: The Origins of Zhou Zuoren’s Thoughts on “Humane Literature” 63 Zhu Ziqiang, translated by Xu Derong vi Representing Children in Chinese and U.S. Children’s Literature Section iii: StudieS of aMerican authorShip 6 Love and Death in Clovernook: Alice Cary’s Children of theOh ioFron tie r 77 Dennis Berthold 7 Interpreting Elizabeth Foreman Lewis’s Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze 87 Kenneth Kidd 8 Lloyd Alexander’s Chronicles of Prydain: Imaging the American Child through a British Lens 97 Robert Boenig Section iv: a hiStory of didactic children’S literature 9 The Multiple Facets and Contemporary Mission of the Images of Children in Chinese Children’s Literature 109 Tang Sulan, translated by Wang Xiaohui 10 Images of Children and Views of Children’s Literature in Contemporary China 119 Chen Hui, translated by Chi Xin 11 Children’s Disposition and Children’s Views 129 Cao Wenxuan, translated by Liang Hong 12 Representing Boys and Girls in the 1912 Book of Knowledge 137 Claudia Nelson 13 “Black and Beautiful and Bruised Like Me”: Contrasts and the Black Aesthetic in Picture Books of Langston Hughes 147 Michelle H. Martin 14 Remembering the Civil Rights Movement in Photographic Texts for Children 161 Katharine Capshaw Section v: theMeS in children’S literature 15 Wimpy Boys and Spunky Girls: Beverly Cleary’s Template for the Gendered Child in Postwar American Children’s Literature 175 Claudia Mills Contents vii 16 The Commercial Cultural Spirit and the Contemporary Image of Children: A Discussion of the Artistic Innovation of China’s Contemporary Children’s Literature 185 Fang Weiping, translated by Li Jie 17 Retelling the First World War as Alternate History and Technological Fantasy in American Children’s Literature 197 Lynne Vallone 18 Back to Basic Points and Seeking a Turning Point: The Multidimensional Construction of Adolescent Identity in American Realistic Novels for Young Adults 209 Tan Fengxia, translated by Taoyang coda On Writing Children’s Literature Mei Zihan, translated by Wang Chengcheng Index 227 This page has been left blank intentionally List of Illustrations 13.1 Untitled illustration from Martin’s Big Words © 2001 by Doreen Rappaport; illustrations by Bryan Collier. Reprinted by Permission of Disney•Hyperion, an imprint of Disney Book Group LLC. All Rights Reserved. 154 13.2 Untitled illustration from Love to Langston: text copyright © 2002 by Tony Medina; illustrations copyright © 2002 by R. Gregory Christie. Permissions arranged with Lee & Low Books Inc., New York, NY 10016. 158

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