03874nam 2200673I 450 991045296720332120200520144314.01-317-06604-91-317-06603-01-315-60543-01-4094-4736-71-299-18404-9(CKB)2550000001005726(EBL)1128562(OCoLC)829461069(SSID)ssj0000834028(PQKBManifestationID)12365698(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000834028(PQKBWorkID)10936390(PQKB)10867213(MiAaPQ)EBC1128562(MiAaPQ)EBC5207755(Au-PeEL)EBL5207755(CaPaEBR)ebr11489858(OCoLC)1018162497(OCoLC)950005684(EXLCZ)99255000000100572620180727h20162013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrRepresentations of China in British children's fiction, 1851-1911 /by Shih-Wen ChenFirst edition.Boca Raton, FL :Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis,[2016].©2013.1 online resource (218 p.)Ashgate Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the PresentDescription based upon print version of record.1-4094-4735-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.A kaleidoscope of knowledge: children, knowledge, and China in Victorian Britain -- Exploring the celestial kingdom: William Dalton and Anne Bowman's vision of China -- From comic trickster to brilliant detective: E.H. Burrage's "immortal" Ching-Ching -- Heroes and hostile hordes: representing the Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864) -- China against the Allies: interpreting the Boxer Uprising (1899-1901) -- Conclusion: Quilts and kaleidoscopes: visions of China in the literary imagination.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.Ashgate studies in childhood, 1700 to the present.Children's stories, EnglishHistory and criticismChinese in literatureChinaIn literatureElectronic books.Children's stories, EnglishHistory and criticism.Chinese in literature.823.009/9282Chen Shih-Wen998585FlBoTFGFlBoTFGBOOK9910452967203321Representations of China in British children's fiction, 1851-19112290731UNINA