Children's Literature in China From Lu Xun to Mao Zedong

Introduces major works and debates in children's literature within the framework of China's revolution and modernization. Discusses literature born out the May Fourth period cultural renaissance in the early 20th century, and looks at the work of Lu Xun and his brother Zhou Zhuren, founding fathers of this new literature which swept major urban centers in the 1920s and 1930s. Shows how this literature began as an anti-Confucian attack on tradition, using social Darwinism as the framework for national survival and its application to education, then chronciles how Darwinism gave way to Marxism in the post-war period. Farquhar teaches China studies and Asian law at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.