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

Download or read book Representing Children in Chinese and U.S. Children's Literature written by Professor Claudia Nelson and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2014-11-28 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together children’s literature scholars from China and the United States, this collection provides an introduction to the scope and goals of a field characterized by active but also distinctive scholarship in two countries with very different rhetorical traditions. Wide-ranging and ambitious in its encouragement of communication between Chinese and American children’s literature scholars, this collection is a model for examining how and why children’s literature, more than many literary forms, circulates internationally.