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Representations of China in British Children's Fiction, 1851-1911 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Representations of China in British Children's Fiction, 1851-1911 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present
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In her extensively researched exploration of China in British
children's literature, Shih-Wen Chen provides a sustained critique
of the reductive dichotomies that have limited insight into the
cultural and educative role these fictions played in disseminating
ideas and knowledge about China. Chen considers a range of
different genres and types of publication--travelogue storybooks,
historical novels, adventure stories, and periodicals--to
demonstrate the diversity of images of China in the Victorian and
Edwardian imagination. Turning a critical eye on popular and
prolific writers such as Anne Bowman, William Dalton, Edwin
Harcourt Burrage, Bessie Marchant, G.A. Henty, and Charles Gilson,
Chen shows how Sino-British relations were influential in the
representation of China in children's literature, challenges the
notion that nineteenth-century children's literature simply
parroted the dominant ideologies of the age, and offers insights
into how attitudes towards children's relationship with knowledge
changed over the course of the century. Her book provides a fresh
context for understanding how China was constructed in the period
from 1851 to 1911 and sheds light on British cultural history and
the history and uses of children's literature.
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