Construction and Deconstruction (A Literary History Phenomenon—A Study of the Paradigm Shift in Children's Literature on Both Sides of the Taiwan Strait in the 1990s)

Author: Ma Li, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2004-12-01
Features: In the 1990s, mainland China and Taiwan were undergoing historical transformation, and their fairy tales were also experiencing a shift in paradigms. This book is the result of a collaborative research project conducted by the Institute of Children's Literature at Shenyang Normal University and the Institute of Children's Literature at Donggang University in Taiwan. The book includes both overviews and case studies, making it a significant work in fairy tale research. It is divided into three main parts: Part 1: Overview, which covers research on the general situation, themes, characters, conventional forms, types, and ambiguous forms of fairy tales in mainland China and Taiwan during the 1990s; Part 2: Case Studies, which includes research on the works of writers such as Lin Shiren, Zhou Rui, Zhang Jiahua, Guan Jiaqi, and Sun Qingfeng; and Part 3: Children's Fairy Tale Research, which examines themes, characters, forms, types of children's fairy tales, as well as the works of authors like Sun Youjun and Tang Sulan. At the end of the book, there are bibliographies of fairy tale creations and research from mainland China and Taiwan in the 1990s. The main focus of this book is to study the paradigm shift in fairy tales between mainland China and Taiwan during the 1990s. The three parts of the book present different perspectives on this transformation. In terms of thematic research, the book emphasizes the multicultural connotations of fairy tales from both sides during this period, revealing their modern and postmodern thematic implications, particularly highlighting their cultural characteristics of deconstructing central discourse.