Abstract
In her article "Canon Formation and Children's Literature during the May Fourth Period" Chu Shen discusses the translation of children's literature as a site in which nationalism is mirrored and is in turn constructed. For the New Culturalists during the May Fourth Period (1915-1927), nationalism was mirrored through a progressive cultural and literary agenda that included the translation of foreign literatures and hence contributed to canon formation. Shen's study refers to the importance of the study of translation with regard to topics of nationalism in the May Fourth period and it advances our knowledge not only about an important transitional period of modern Chinese history, but also about an often neglected genre and its cultural, literary, and ideological significance.
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Shen, Chu.
"Canon Formation and Children's Literature during the May Fourth Period."
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
16.6
(2014):
<https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.2302>
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