Children’s Literature in China.

This post I decided to focus on children’s literature in China. When I was researching a topic for this post I noticed a common trend of the topic growth of children’s literature in China. I thought connecting China to this post would be a good connection because my book review will be about a Chinese book, Little White Duck. I decided I want to focus on the spread of children’s literature in China and how it is growing.

I read a couple of scholarly articles that really sparked my interest about children’s literature in China. I know here in the United States we have a range of different types and topics of children’s literature, so I was curious if that was same for another place and thought I would share with all of you. Chinese literature for children is a growing field. China is known for exporting many things to the united states but books hasn’t always been one of them but in today that is changing. One thing I found really interesting was that Chinese and Americans are working to close the gap between American children’s literature and Chinese Children’s literature. One way change has occurred was seen when Shanghai International Children’s Book fair. In this way China is seeing they need to create to grow children’s literature as stated by Junko Yokota a Chinese professor, “Now the Chinese government is saying, We need to grow our own children’s literature,” (Springen 1). I think it’s amazing that even the government are focusing on growing children’s literature in their country. Books from China in the United States still isn’t large but the number are increasing.

As well as the literature increasing the style and range of topics are also increasing. The stories are becoming more fun and creative. Typically China is known for educational pieces of writing.  Picture books weren’t something always popular in the Chinese culture but more picture books with fun stories are becoming a thing in China. Another topic that is being seen more recently is stories about Chinese traditions and festivals. Stories are becoming true to the culture and sharing it with children and other places. I think it’s so great that china is trying to increase children’s literature and create more diversity in themes and topics. Overall China is trying to grow the Chinese Children’s Literature a great deal and they’re having real success.

Words Cited.

Springen, Karen. The Growth of Chinese Children’s Books. Publishers Weekly, 2018.

Ho, Laino. Chinese children’s literature- then and now. https://www. tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13614549709510595, accessed 1 Nov 2018.