Representations of Children and Success in Asia

Dream Chasers
Herausgeber: Chen, Shih-Wen Sue; Lau, Sin Wen

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This edited volume explores how success is conceptualized and represented in texts for young people in Asia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 407g
• ISBN-13: 9781032293813
• ISBN-10: 1032293810
• Artikelnr.: 70359456

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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