Children’s Literature and Transnational Knowledge in Modern China

Shih-Wen Sue Chen is Senior Lecturer in Writing and Literature at Deakin University, Australia. She received her PhD in Literature, Screen and Theatre studies from the Australian National University. She is the author of Representations of China in British Children’s Fiction, 1851-1911 (2013) and has many essays published in peer-reviewed journals and edited collections.

• 1. Protestant Missionaries, Chinese Intellectuals, and Children’s Literature.- 2. The Filial Child and the Evangelical Child in Translated Bestsellers and Forgotten Tracts.- 3. “Instructive and Amusing”: Xiaohai yuebao (The Child’s Paper, 1875–1915) and Childhood.- 4. Learning and Play in Mengxue bao (The Children’s Educator) and Qimeng huabao (Enlightenment Pictorial).- 5. Educating the Child: Textbooks, Primers, and Readers.- 6. Conclusion.