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to celebrate the 30th IBBY world congress in China Bookbird special on Chinese children’s literature Bookbird special on Chinese children’s history, children lianhuanhua (comic books) science fiction for literature, illustrations xiaoming’s wang publishing jia li and jia mei stories poetry qin wenjun’s children’s and zhang zhi-lu write about writingchen jin bo’s danyan 2006 VOL 44, NO. 3 BOOKBIRD – A Journal of International Children’s Literature China Special IBBY ISSN 0006-7377 The Journal of IBBY,the International Board on Books for Young People Editors: Valerie Coghlan and Siobhán Parkinson Bookbird Address for submissions and other editorial correspondence: (ISSN 0006-7377) is published quarterly, at [email protected] and [email protected] the beginning of January, April, July and October. (Issues may occasionally be published early to mark Bookbird’s editorial office is supported by the Church of Ireland College of Education, Dublin, Ireland. particular occasions.) 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Editorial | page 4 CO NTEX OUNT THE STARS IN THE TS: ‘I WOULD C SKY’ Early-20th-century Chinese Children’s Literature: Self, State and Story Marian ALLSOBROOK | page 5 Trends in Chinese Youth Culture and Literature CHEN Danyan | page 13 Chinese Children’s Literature in the 21st Century TANG Rui | page 21 AUTHORS: ‘LET’S GO LIES’ S AND OUT/AND CATCH SOME FIREF NRE GE ‘Linked Pictures’: The Phenomenon of Lianhuanhua Weimin MO and Wenju SHEN | page 30 Children’s Science Fiction in China WU Yan and Kerry MALLAN | page 40 Gendered Imaginaries of Childhood in Qin Wenjun’s Jia Li and Jia Mei Stories ZHANG Jiahua | page 48 Emotional Transmutation in the Illustrations of Wang Xiaoming TANG Bing | page 56 Introducing Jin Bo’s Poetry for Children CHEN Hui | page 64 R EADE ITH LITTLE WINGS RS AND MARKETS: ‘FLYING STARS W ’ How to Move our Children ZHANG Zhi-Lu | page 68 Chinese Children’s Literature Progressing with the Times WANG Quangen | page 75 Paving a Road to the Azure Sky The Present and Future of Chinese Children’s Publishing HAI Fei | page 79 Postcards from around the World | interleaved Focus IBBY | page 87 The section titles come from poems by Jin Bo, quoted in the article by CHEN Hui (pages 64–7) BOOKBIRD different starting point and with maybe quite a different interpretation. Editorial This emerging convergence of thoughts and topics began to convince us that we were on to something.We’d done it – by a happy combina- tion of research and chance, helpful contacts Ni hao! and sudden inspired moments of recognition, we’d discovered Chinese children’s literature. hen we started our hunt for material for Not all of it, no doubt, but a goodly chunk, we Wthis Bookbird special on China, we were trust.We hadn’t exactly stumbled upon it, since setting out on a voyage of discovery with a we knew all along that we’d been looking for compass but no map, not much idea of the lay it, but it did feel like a gift all the same, some- of the land but a sense that there was land, if thing hoped for but not fully expected, only we could train our spyglasses on the hori- something we knew we wanted but couldn’t zon for long enough and at the right angle.We exactly describe, though, like art, we knew it also had a lot of support and good will from an when we saw it. array of friends and colleagues, acquaintances To those readers lucky enough to be joining and strangers, contacts and contacts-of-contacts. us at the 30th IBBY world congress, to be held Slowly we gathered names and email in China in the autumn of this year, we offer addresses and as we gradually began to source this special issue as a sort of orientation course and track down articles and materials, we grew in Chinese children’s literature. For those of more and more excited.The issue was begin- you who will not have that opportunity, we ning not only to take shape but to make sense. hope this is some consolation and a chance to Our old friend Serendipity came on board, and participate vicariously.And we hope also to we found that children’s writers contributing reach many readers long after the congress is articles were themselves being discussed in past and beyond the borders even of the IBBY other articles; names cropping up in one place world, readers who, like us just a little while were also cropping up some place else; books ago, are eagerly looking for information and mentioned in articles appeared in the postcard discussion about a literature that is both rela- reviews; ideas and trends being discussed by one tively new and relatively hidden but that is full contributor were being discussed also by of interest and developing apace. another contributor coming from an entirely We have divided the papers into sections that we hope help to make sense of the sheer volume and novelty of the material. Section Bookbird editors one contains overview articles that set Chinese VALERIE COGHLAN is the librarian at children’s literature in a historical context and the Church of Ireland College of Education introduce a variety of names and titles; section in Dublin, Ireland. She lectures on and writes about children’s books and has a two homes in on a range of specific genres and particular interest in picturebooks. authors; and the last section again contains SIOBHÁN PARKINSON is a writer of overview articles, this time with a focus on fiction for children and adults (young and otherwise) and a professional editor.