by Chan Shin Kwan, Meimei. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references. / Appendix in Chinese. / ACKNOWLEDGEMENT --- p.i / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.ii / Chapter CHAPTER ONE --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter I. --- Life and Form --- p.2 / Chapter 1. --- Lukacs and alienation / Chapter 2. --- Longing and Form / Chapter II. --- Generic Form --- p.7 / Chapter III. --- Idea of the Child --- p.10 / Chapter IV. --- Longing and Hong Kong Children's Literature --- p.13 / Notes --- p.17 / Chapter CHAPTER TWO --- "LONGING, HOME AND THE HISTORY OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE IN HONG KONG" --- p.19 / Chapter I. --- The Chinese Idea of the Child --- p.21 / Chapter II. --- Before the Sixties: Hong Kong - Mainland Interaction --- p.25 / Chapter 1. --- Modern Children Magazine and Hong Kong-Mainland Interaction before1949 / Chapter 2. --- The Fifties and Sixties: Blooming of Children's Magazines and Textbooks / Chapter III. --- Rise of Local Consciousness and the Development of Children's Literature System in the Seventies --- p.33 / Chapter 1. --- Identity Formation / Chapter 2. --- Institutional Discourse on Children / Chapter 3. --- Realism in Children's Literature / Chapter IV. --- The Eighties: Formation of a Modern Cultural Production System --- p.40 / Chapter 1. --- Emergence of a Full-fledged Children Literary System / Chapter A. --- Formation / Chapter B. --- The Children's Books Publishing Industry / Chapter C. --- Dominance of the Market Force / Chapter 2. --- The 1997 Factor / Chapter V. --- Ambivalence in the Nineties --- p.47 / Chapter 1. --- "June Fourth, Emigration Wave and Other Adverse Conditions" / Chapter 2. --- Changing Ideas of the Child and the Return to Childhood / Chapter VI. --- Concluding Remarks --- p.52 / Notes --- p.54 / Chapter CHAPTER THREE --- CHILDREN'S LITERATURE AS A GENRE --- p.59 / Chapter I. --- Definitions of Children's Literature --- p.59 / Chapter II. --- A Brief Review on the History of Children's Literature --- p.62 / Chapter III. --- Aesthetics versus Pedagogy --- p.67 / Chapter IV. --- "Dialogism, The Evaluation of Children's Literature" --- p.74 / Notes --- p.80 / Chapter CHAPTER FOUR --- GENRE OF LONGING --- p.82 / Chapter PART I --- Coming to Terms with Past Self -- Longing and Childhood Autobiography --- p.83 / Chapter I. --- "Story, Text and Narration" --- p.84 / Chapter II. --- Story on Death: Adults and Past Self in Me and Kissing --- p.85 / Chapter III. --- "Dialogism, The Construction of Possible Worlds" --- p.92 / Chapter 1. --- Possible Worlds and Children's Literature / Chapter 2. --- Credibility and Authenticity in Possible Worlds in Me and Kissing / Chapter 3. --- Construction of Subject Positions in Possible Worlds in Me and Kissing / Chapter IV. --- "Longing, Death, Childhood and Past Self" --- p.102 / Notes --- p.104 / Chapter PART II --- The Negotiation of Identity -- Short Story on Home --- p.106 / Chapter I. --- "Longing, Home and Identity" --- p.106 / Chapter 1. --- Longing and Home / Chapter 2. --- Hong Kong and Identity Crisis --- p.109 / Chapter II. --- Home is What We Construct --- p.110 / Chapter III. --- The Politics of Hope --- p.112 / Notes --- p.116 / Chapter Part III --- Longing For Utopia -- Social Criticism and Fables --- p.117 / Chapter I. --- """Urban"" Fables" --- p.118 / Chapter II. --- Intertextuality and Fables --- p.121 / Chapter 1. --- Intertextuality and Establishment of New Values / Chapter 2. --- The Working of Intextuality: Scaffold and the Zone of Proximal Development / Chapter III. --- Dystopia and Utopia: The Collective and the Individual in A Nong's Fables --- p.127 / Chapter IV. --- McMug and Dreams --- p.130 / Chapter 1. --- Fantastic Urban Fables / Chapter 2. --- Intertextuality in McMug / Chapter 3. --- Longing and McDull / Chapter 4. --- A Dream in Ambivalence / Notes --- p.137 / Chapter CHAPTER FIVE --- CONCLUSION --- p.138 / WORKS CONSULTED --- p.148 / Chapter I. --- Primary Works / Chapter II. --- Secondary Sources --- p.152 / Chapter III. --- Annotated Bibliography of Critical Works on Children's Literature --- p.170 / APPENDIX