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

Traditional publications for Chinese children were based on core value and belief systems in Confucianism. After the First Opium War, foreign missionaries began to disseminate Western knowledge and religious beliefs within the Chinese society on a wider scale, reaching children through the avenue of education. At this time, however, most Chinese intellectuals held fast to their belief in traditional Chinese methods of education which emphasised the Confucian principles. The loss of the Sino-Japanese War brought a realization within China that its society and education system were relatively backward when compared with those of Western powers. Chinese intellectuals became more aware of the necessity for an entire education reform which should start from the younger generations in an attempt to revitalize China. As a result of this realization, Chinese educators began to adopt the missionaries’ practice of using publications targeted specifically at children. From the mid-19th century onwards, these publications underwent a period of vigorous development in China. Missionaries and Chinese intellectuals in the late Qing period had thus, between them, helped to prepare the ground for the modernization of China by educating the future generations to employ new ideas and values. This historical survey aims to investigate the development of Chinese publications for children from the mid-19th to the early 20th centuries, and offering a closer look at childhood education in China during this period. Some basic clarifications on the definition of children and the nature of books for children is given in the Introductory Chapter, and a brief account of the previous works and articles related to the study is also included. The main part of this thesis starts with a critical examination of the changes of the traditional Chinese primers for children education like Three Character Classic (《三字經》) under the influence of western ideas. Then it proceeds to an exploration of the emergence of modernized textbooks in Chapter Three with a critical appraisal of noted writers and publishers such as Wang Hengtong (Wang Hang-T’ong 王亨統) and the Commercial Press (商務印書館). Chapters Four to Seven present case studies of four children’s periodicals representing different parties of interest in the reform of children education, they are respectively the missionary publication The Child’s Paper (Xiaohai yuebao 《小孩月報》), The Children’s Educator (Mengxue bao《蒙學報》) published by the Chinese reformist, Enlightenment Pictorial (Qimeng huabao《啟蒙畫報》) published by enlightened Chinese intellectuals, and The Children’s World (Tongzi shijie 《童子世界》) published by the Chinese revolutionist. Chapter Eight attempts to reveal the nature of leisure readings and the development of children’s literature in late Qing China while the final Chapter provides conclusions and suggestions for further investigation. By writing this thesis, I am committed to provide readers with a comprehensive and solid historical sketch of the development of children’s publication in a critical period of pre-modern China. / published_or_final_version / Chinese / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

by Maggy Chan Mei Lan. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 171-182). / Abstract also in Chinese. / Chapter Chapter One --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter Two --- Historical Background --- p.17 / Chapter 2.1: --- Whimsical Garden: A short Visit to the Realm of Children's Literature in the West / Chapter 2.2: --- Rejuvenated Roses: The Growth of Hong Kong Children's Literature and Its Tinge of Local Colors / Chapter 2.3: --- Magic Wand to the Future: Subversive Children's Literature / Chapter Chapter Three --- Undressing the Dressed: To Overturn Traditional Modes of Adornment --- p.68 / Chapter Chapter Four --- "If Adults Are Not Always Right, Who Is?" --- p.93 / Chapter Chapter Five --- Inverted Chalkboard: School of Subversion --- p.121 / Chapter Chapter Six --- Conclusion: A New Chapter --- p.140 / Appendix I´ؤBiographical Notes on Some HK Children's Writers --- p.147 / Appendix II´ؤNewspaper cuttings --- p.149 / Works Cited --- p.171

published_or_final_version / Chinese / Master / Master of Philosophy

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2005. / Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xvi, 312 p.; also includes graphics (some col.). Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-312). Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center

Child-oriented Chinese indigenous children's literature was created with the translation of western children's works and theories on children's literature. The study on translated children's literature in China is significant not only to the research on Chinese children's literature, but also to Chinese translation history. At present the study on translated children's literature both at home and abroad occupies a marginalized position. Particularly in China, the limited research that has been done on the subject is of poor quality. / Key words. Translation Studies; translated children's literature; poetics; patronage; linguistic elements; personality; influence study; reception. / This dissertation combines the methods taken from Descriptive Translation Studies, children's literature research and Comparative Literature to describe and analyze the production, reception and influence of translated children's literature in China during the period of 1898-1949. Based on two catalogues compiled by the author of this dissertation, namely, A Catalogue of Translated Children's Literature During 1898-1919 and A Catalogue of Translated Children's Books During 1911-1949, the dissertation describes a picture of translated children's literature in China during the period of 1898-1949. The production of translated children's work is analyzed from four perspectives: poetics, patronage, linguistic elements and personality of translators. The reception part, based on the reception models by Yves Chevrel, takes Curoe translated by XIA Mianzun, The Watch translated by LU Xun, and "Translated Russian Children's Literature in China" as three case studies to examine the reception of translated children's literature in the Chinese context. The influence part adopts the methodology of chronology and doxologie to prove and conduct the detailed aspects of the influence of translated children's literature upon indigenous Chinese children's literature from three aspects: techniques, content and image. The dissertation ends with an outlook for future research on translated children's literature in China. / 李麗. / 論文(哲學博士)--香港中文大學, 2006. / 參考文獻(p. 222-238). / Adviser: Chee Fun Fong. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-02, Section: A, page: 0562. / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / School code: 1307. / Lun wen (zhe xue bo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2006. / Can kao wen xian (p. 222-238). / Li Li.

University of Macau / Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / Department of Chinese