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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Intro; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Contents; About the Author; Note on Transliteration, Chinese Characters, and Abbreviations; Abbreviations; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Protestant Missionaries, Chinese Intellectuals, and Children's Literature; Attitudes Toward Children and Childhood; What Did Chinese Children Read?; Missionary Print Culture for Children; Chinese Print Culture for Children; Transnationalism and Translation; Structure of the Book; Chapter 2: The Filial Child and the Evangelical Child in Translated Bestsellers and Forgotten Tracts; Evangelical Literature and Translation |
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Translators and ReadershipThe Evangelical Child; Attracting the Chinese Reader; Cultural Acceptability, Filial Piety, and Devotion to God; Conclusion; Chapter 3: "Instructive and Amusing": Xiaohai yuebao (The Child's Paper, 1875-1915) and Childhood; Xiaohai yuebao: Origins; Contributors; Liars and Wrestling with Temptation; "Imbuing Chinese Youth with Western Ideas and Knowledge"; Readership and the Participatory Child; Conclusion; Chapter 4: Learning and Play in Mengxue bao (The Children's Educator) and Qimeng huabao (Enlightenment Pictorial) |
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The Children's Educator and Enlightenment Pictorial: Origins and Historical ContextFormat; Circulation; Translations; Audience; The Children's Educator: Children, Play, and Creativity; Creative Children; The Enlightenment Pictorial: Purposeful Play?; Conclusion; Chapter 5: Educating the Child: Textbooks, Primers, and Readers; Primers, Readers, and Textbooks in Missionary Schools and the State School System; Textbooks for Girls; Learning Through Exemplars; To Play or Not to Play; Conclusion; Chapter 6: Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography; Primary Sources; Children's Periodicals |
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Other Children's TextsEnglish; Chinese; Other English Sources; Other Chinese Sources; Secondary Sources; Index |
| Summary |
This book examines the development of Chinese children's literature from the late Qing to early Republican era. It highlights the transnational flows of knowledge, texts, and cultures during a time when children's literature in China and the West was developing rapidly. Drawing from a rich archive of periodicals, novels, tracts, primers, and textbooks, the author analyzes how Chinese children's literature published by Protestant missionaries and Chinese educators in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries presented varying notions of childhood. In this period of dramatic transition from the dynastic Qing empire to the new Republican China, young readers were offered different models of childhood, some of which challenged dominant Confucian ideas of what it meant to be a child. This volume sheds new light on a little-explored aspect of Chinese literary history. Through its contributions to the fields of children's literature, book history, missionary history, and translation studies, it enhances our understanding of the negotiations between Chinese and Western cultures that shaped the publication and reception of Chinese texts for children. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 1, 2019) |
| In |
Springer eBooks |
| Subject |
Children's literature, Chinese -- Study and teaching
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Children -- Books and reading -- China
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
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Children -- Books and reading
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China
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789811360831 |
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9811360839 |
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