{"id":2596,"date":"2014-05-01T09:30:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T01:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2596"},"modified":"2014-04-21T21:38:25","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T13:38:25","slug":"chinese-literature-dissertation-reviews-youth-literature-on-the-sino-japanese-war-china-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2596","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Literature Dissertation Reviews: Youth Literature on the Sino-Japanese War, China, & US"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Youth <\/a> Dissertation Reviews <\/a>has posted Steve Poland’s review of Chen Minjie’s dissertation, “Friends and Foes on the Battlefield“<\/b>: A Study of Chinese and U.S. Youth Literature about the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)<\/i><\/b>. Here\u2019s how it begins:<\/p>\n

Youth literature is a powerful form of inter-generational storytelling, whereby one generation can pass along experiences of traumatic events to younger generations born into considerably different circumstances. In this capacity, youth literature also functions as a conduit of national myth-making and social reproduction, transforming a diverse multiplicity of individual lives into the recognizable types and tropes of desirable historical narratives. In her ambitious and insightful dissertation on the seventy-year role of youth literature in shaping postwar Chinese understanding of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), Minjie Chen interrogates the nation\u2019s authorization of who gets to tell the war story in two ways. First, as indicated in the subtitle of the dissertation, Chen uses a comparative framework to analyze the different ways youth literature in China and the United States has (or has not) offered ethnic Chinese youth a narrative connection to Chinese experiences of World War II. Second, Chen provocatively challenges the hegemony of male, conflict-centered youth literature in China by producing an oral history of the wartime experiences of women in Yunhe \u4e91\u548c, Zhejiang, demonstrating how a different trajectory for youth literature in China may have looked through the authorship of marginalized and excluded voices. The dissertation utilizes a variety of methodologies to show how youth literature (including lianhuanhua <\/i>\u8fde\u73af\u753b, or \u201cpopular pictorial reading material\u201d) has over the course of seventy years contributed to both historical memories and amnesia surrounding the Second Sino-Japanese War that retain political, economic, and social significance today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click the image above for the full review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dissertation Reviews has posted Steve Poland’s review of Chen Minjie’s dissertation, “Friends and Foes on the Battlefield“: A Study of Chinese and U.S. Youth Literature about the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). 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