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Representations of Children and Success in Asia

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Av Shih-Wen Sue Chen, Sin Wen Lau

Del i serien Children's Literature and Culture

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This edited volume explores how success is conceptualized and represented in texts for young people in Asia. The essays in this collection examine how success for children relates to education, family, gender, race, class, community, and the nation. It answers the following questions: How is success for children represented in literature, cinema, and popular media? In what ways are these images grounded in the historical, political, and cultural contexts in which they are produced and consumed? How does childhood agency influence ideas about success in Asia? Highlighting the similarities and differences in how success is defined for children and young adults in Japan, South Korea, People’s Republic of China, Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia, Vietnam, and India, this volume argues that success is an important keyword in the literary and cultural study of childhood in Asia.
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Shih-Wen Sue Chen (PhD, ANU) is an Associate Professor in Writing and Literature at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.Sin Wen Lau (PhD, ANU) is Senior Lecturer in the Chinese Program at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.

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"Representations of Children and Success in Asia is a remarkable collection of essays. All the essays carefully address and argue the unique constructions of childhood and success in Asia by accounting for the historical, political, and religious or philosophical bases. It provides both a much-needed background for scholars who are unfamiliar with Asian children’s texts and a foundation for deeper discussion among scholars from the regions. It is indeed a successful collection of study on success."--Chrysogonus Siddha Malilang, Malmö University“All the chapters of this book present an interesting and multifaceted approach to success, which is often situated as the expression of adult desire and their uncompromising expectation towards the behaviors and goals of children and young people. By offering an impressive cross section of the complex ways in which success is conceptualised in Asian cultures through the materials of children’s culture, this volume will interest educators, parents, and cultural researchers.”--Joanna Karmasz, University of Warsaw

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