Representing Children in Chinese and U.S. Children's Literature

'... a wide-ranging, and multi-dimensional volume, and a valuable resource for students and critics seeking an introduction into the overarching ideas and interactions of these two national traditions.' International Research Society for Children's Literature

Claudia Nelson is Professor of English and Rebecca Morris is completing her PhD in English at Texas A&M University.

Introduction, Claudia Nelson, Rebecca Morris; Section I Theorizing Childrens Literature: Journey as Metaphor and Motif; Chapter 1 Images of Growth: Embodied Metaphors in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Roberta Seelinger Trites; Chapter 2 Identifying the Motif in a Countrys Image of Children: Research on Childrens Issues in the Ming Dynasty, a Cultural Critique and Interpretation of Formulated Developmental Strategies, Ban Ma, Lin Aimei; Section II Chinese Childrens Literature and the May Fourth Movement; Chapter 3 On the Image of Children and the Three Stages of Transformation in 100 Years of Chinese Childrens Literature, Wang Quangen, Jiang Qian; Chapter 4 The Originality of Lu Xuns Views of Children and Chinas Modern Image of Children, Xu Yan, Chi Xin; Chapter 5 The Discovery of Children: The Origins of Zhou Zuorens Thoughts on Humane Literature, Zhu Ziqiang, Xu Derong; Section III Studies of American Authorship; Chapter 6 Love and Death in Clovernook: Alice Carys Children of the Ohio Frontier, Dennis Berthold; Chapter 7 Interpreting Elizabeth Foreman Lewiss Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze, Kenneth Kidd; Chapter 8 Lloyd Alexanders Chronicles of Prydain: Imaging the American Child through a British Lens, Robert Boenig; Section IV A History of Didactic Childrens Literature; Chapter 9 The Multiple Facets and Contemporary Mission of the Images of Children in Chinese Childrens Literature, Tang Sulan, Wang Xiaohui; Chapter 10 Images of Children and Views of Childrens Literature in Contemporary China, Chen Hui, Chi Xin; Chapter 11 Childrens Disposition and Childrens Views, Cao Wenxuan, Liang Hong; Chapter 12 Representing Boys and Girls in the 1912 Book of Knowledge, Claudia Nelson; Chapter 13 Black and Beautiful and Bruised Like Me: Contrasts and the Black Aesthetic in Picture Books of Langston Hughes, Michelle H. Martin; Chapter 14 Remembering the Civil Rights Movement in Photographic Texts for Children, Katharine Capshaw; Section V Themes in Childrens Literature; Chapter 15 Wimpy Boys and Spunky Girls: Beverly Clearys Template for the Gendered Child in Postwar American Childrens Literature, Claudia Mills; Chapter 16 The Commercial Cultural Spirit and the Contemporary Image of Children: A Discussion of the Artistic Innovation of Chinas Contemporary Childrens Literature, Fang Weiping, Li Jie; Chapter 17 Retelling the First World War as Alternate History and Technological Fantasy in American Childrens Literature, Lynne Vallone; Chapter 18 Back to Basic Points and Seeking a Turning Point: The Multidimensional Construction of Adolescent Identity in American Realistic Novels for Young Adults, Tan Fengxia, Taoyang; Chapter 19 Coda, Mei Zihan, Wang Chengcheng;