This edited volume explores how success is conceptualized and represented in texts for young people in Asia. The essays in this collection examine how success for children relates to education, family, gender, race, class, community, and the nation. It answers the following questions: How is success for children represented in literature, cinema, and popular media? In what ways are these images grounded in the historical, political, and cultural contexts in which they are produced and consumed? How does childhood agency influence ideas about success in Asia? Highlighting the similarities and differences in how success is defined for children and young adults in Japan, South Korea, People’s Republic of China, Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia, Vietnam, and India, this volume argues that success is an important keyword in the literary and cultural study of childhood in Asia.
Edited by:
Shih-Wen Sue Chen,
Sin Wen Lau
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Weight: 510g
ISBN: 9781032293813
ISBN 10: 1032293810
Series: Children's Literature and Culture
Pages: 262
Publication Date: 27 May 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
"Chapter 1: Dreams of Success: Young People, Agency, Values, and Citizenship in Asia Shih-Wen Sue Chen and Sin Wen Lau I. Educational Success Chapter 2: The Grace in Failings: Reading Failure as Success in SKY Castle and Assassination Classroom Sambhabi Ghosh Chapter 3: Success at Any Price: Exam Hell and Morita Yoshimitsu’s The Family Game Kelly Hansen Chapter 4: Unfulfilled Dreams of IIT: Notions of Success in Five Point Someone and 3 Idiots Rizia Begum Laskar II. Cultural Politics of Success Chapter 5: Representations of Money and Success in Contemporary Chinese Children’s Literature Ying Zou Chapter 6: Hope, Oppression, and the Indian Urban Poor: Portrayals of Success in Trash! and Dear Mrs. Naidu Shriya Kuchibhotla Chapter 7: Disappearing Girls: Gendered Success and the Reproduction of the Singapore Family in Jack Neo’s Films Shih-Wen Sue Chen and Sin Wen Lau III. Success and the Nation Chapter 8: To Be Red: Child Propagandists and Their Success in the Cultural Revolution Yi Ren Chapter 9: Reaching for the Stars: Identity and Success in Three Indonesian Children’s Films Nia Nafisah Chapter 10: Becoming Indonesian: Political Constructions of Successful Children in Aku Ingin Menciummu Sekali Saja and Denias Senandung di Atas Awan Satrya Wibawa Chapter 11: Messages of ""Success"" in Popular Taiwanese Children’s Books Agnes Tang and Ivy Haoyin Hsieh IV. Success in the World Chapter 12: Youth Ecoagency in Two Chinese Science Fiction Films on Environmental Disasters Fengxia Tan and Claudia Nelson Chapter 13: Saviors of the World: Impersonality and Success in Shinkai Makoto’s Animated Films Katsuya Izumi Chapter 14: Cultivating Dreams: Becoming Middle-class and Affluent in Globalizing Urban Vietnam Catherine Earl Chapter 15: Semiotic Representations of Success in English-Language Picturebooks for Young Korean Children Jennifer M. Graff and Eun Young Yeom"
Shih-Wen Sue Chen (PhD, ANU) is an Associate Professor in Writing and Literature at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. Sin Wen Lau (PhD, ANU) is Senior Lecturer in the Chinese Program at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
