Representing Children in Chinese and U.S. 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 Children’s 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 Country’s Image of Children: Research on Children’s Issues in the Ming Dynasty, a Cultural Critique and Interpretation of Formulated Developmental Strategies, Ban Ma, Lin Aimei; Section II Chinese Children’s Literature and the May Fourth Movement; Chapter 3 On the Image of Children and the Three Stages of Transformation in 100 Years of Chinese Children’s Literature, Wang Quangen, Jiang Qian; Chapter 4 The Originality of Lu Xun’s Views of Children and China’s Modern Image of Children, Xu Yan, Chi Xin; Chapter 5 The Discovery of Children: The Origins of Zhou Zuoren’s Thoughts on “Humane Literature”, Zhu Ziqiang, Xu Derong; Section III Studies of American Authorship; Chapter 6 Love and Death in Clovernook: Alice Cary’s Children of the Ohio Frontier, Dennis Berthold; Chapter 7 Interpreting Elizabeth Foreman Lewis’s Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze, Kenneth Kidd; Chapter 8 Lloyd Alexander’s Chronicles of Prydain: Imaging the American Child through a British Lens, Robert Boenig; Section IV A History of Didactic Children’s Literature; Chapter 9 The Multiple Facets and Contemporary Mission of the Images of Children in Chinese Children’s Literature, Tang Sulan, Wang Xiaohui; Chapter 10 Images of Children and Views of Children’s Literature in Contemporary China, Chen Hui, Chi Xin; Chapter 11 Children’s Disposition and Children’s 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 Children’s Literature; Chapter 15 Wimpy Boys and Spunky Girls: Beverly Cleary’s Template for the Gendered Child in Postwar American Children’s Literature, Claudia Mills; Chapter 16 The Commercial Cultural Spirit and the Contemporary Image of Children: A Discussion of the Artistic Innovation of China’s Contemporary Children’s Literature, Fang Weiping, Li Jie; Chapter 17 Retelling the First World War as Alternate History and Technological Fantasy in American Children’s 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;

'... 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