Asian Children’s Literature and Film in a Global Age

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Children’s Literature and Childhood Imagination in 1960s Taiwan: Jen-Mu Pan and the Discourse of “Child Heart”

Chapter 3 Parents and Parent–Child Relationships in Contemporary Chinese Children’s Literature (1978–2014)

Chapter 4 S ociety I s a F amily : Social Exclusion and Social Dystopia in South Korean Films

Chapter 5 Family Diversity in Recent Japanese Children’s Literature

Chapter 6 Mutilation, Metamorphosis, Transition, Transcendence: Revisiting Genderism and Transgenderism in The Little Mermaid Through Gake no Ue no Ponyo

Chapter 7 In the Shadows: Tracing Children and Childhood in Indian Cinema

Chapter 8 Engendering Identities: Gay and Lesbian Characters in Contemporary Indian English Young Adult Fiction

Chapter 9 The Demon as “Other” in Sri Lankan Children’s Literature: Rambukwella’s Mythil’s Secret and Asiri’s Quest

Chapter 10 Towards a Poetics of Childhood Ethics in Abbas Kiarostami’s Children’s Films

Chapter 11 Folktale Adaptation and Female Agency: Reconfigurations of the Mahsuri Legend in Selected Contemporary Malaysian Young Adult Fiction

Chapter 12 Seeking “Unity in Diversity”: Contemporary Children’s Books in Indonesia

Chapter 13 The Paradox of the Filipino Child: Realistic Philippine Children’s Stories (1990–2018)

Chapter 14 Through Screens and Streams: Digital Liminality and Identities in Philippine Young Adult Speculative Fiction

Chapter 15 Symbiotic Cultural Landscapes: Retelling Chinese Folktales in Ed Young’s Picture Books

Chapter 16 Hyphens, Hybrids and Bridges: Negotiating Third Spaces in Asian-American Children’s Literature