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Overview
- Highlights the role Protestant missionaries played in the transnational diffusion of knowledge and examines the connections between missionaries and international readerships
- Traces the development of print culture for children in China during a period of dramatic transition from the dynastic Qing empire to the Republic of China
- Explores how Chinese texts for children reflect the changing concept of childhood
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“Sue Chen shows us through her extensive research the wide range of influences and issues that went into the making of a modern literature for children in China.”(Tim Barrett, Professor Emeritus of East Asian History, SOAS, University of London, UK)
“Chen’s illuminating study excavates the transnational influences which shaped children’s literature in modern China. The book’s deft analysis of texts produced between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries shows how missionaries, translators and Chinese writers promoted powerful ideas about China and its future.” (Clare Bradford, FAHA, Emeritus Professor, Deakin University, Australia)
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About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Children’s Literature and Transnational Knowledge in Modern China
Book Subtitle: Education, Religion, and Childhood
Authors: Shih-Wen Sue Chen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6083-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-6082-4Published: 08 May 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-6083-1Published: 29 April 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 251
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: Children's Literature, History of China, Printing and Publishing