Representing children in Chinese and U.S. children's literature

Bringing together children's literature scholars from China and the United States, this collection provides an introduction to the scope and goals of a field characterized by active but also distinctive scholarship in two countries with very different rhetorical traditions.

Wide-ranging and ambitious in its encouragement of communication between Chinese and American children's literature scholars, this collection is a model for examining how and why children's literature, more than many literary forms, circulates internationally.