LEADER 03871nam 2200673I 450 001 9910779596603321 005 20240131142140.0 010 $a1-4724-0341-X 010 $a1-317-06604-9 010 $a1-317-06603-0 010 $a1-315-60543-0 010 $a1-4094-4736-7 010 $a1-299-18404-9 035 $a(CKB)2550000001005726 035 $a(EBL)1128562 035 $a(OCoLC)829461069 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000834028 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12365698 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000834028 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10936390 035 $a(PQKB)10867213 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5207755 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11489858 035 $a(OCoLC)1018162497 035 $a(OCoLC)950005684 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB143243 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5207755 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001005726 100 $a20180727h20162013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRepresentations of China in British children's fiction, 1851-1911 /$fby Shih-Wen Chen 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aBoca Raton, FL :$cRoutledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis,$d[2016]. 210 4$dİ2013. 215 $a1 online resource (218 p.) 225 1 $aAshgate Studies in Childhood, 1700 to the Present 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4094-4735-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aA 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. 330 3 $aIn her extensively researched exploration of China in British children?s literature, Shih-Wen Chen provides a sustained critique of the reductive dichotomies that have limited insight into the cultural and educative role these fictions played in disseminating ideas and knowledge about China. Chen considers a range of different genres and types of publication-travelogue storybooks, historical novels, adventure stories, and periodicals-to demonstrate the diversity of images of China in the Victorian and Edwardian imagination. Turning a critical eye on popular and prolific writers such as Anne Bowman, William Dalton, Edwin Harcourt Burrage, Bessie Marchant, G.A. Henty, and Charles Gilson, Chen shows how Sino-British relations were influential in the representation of China in children?s literature, challenges the notion that nineteenth-century children?s literature simply parroted the dominant ideologies of the age, and offers insights into how attitudes towards children?s relationship with knowledge changed over the course of the century. Her book provides a fresh context for understanding how China was constructed in the period from 1851 to 1911 and sheds light on British cultural history and the history and uses of children?s literature. 410 0$aAshgate studies in childhood, 1700 to the present. 606 $aChildren's stories, English$xHistory and criticism 606 $aChinese in literature 607 $aChina$xIn literature 615 0$aChildren's stories, English$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aChinese in literature. 676 $a823.009/9282 700 $aChen$b Shih-Wen$01548123 801 0$bFlBoTFG 801 1$bFlBoTFG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779596603321 996 $aRepresentations of China in British children's fiction, 1851-1911$93804934 997 $aUNINA