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  1. Representations of children and success in Asia
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    Contributor: Chen, Shih-Wen (Publisher); Lau, Sin Wen (Publisher)
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York, NY

    "This edited volume explores how success is conceptualized and represented in texts for young people in Asia. The essays in this collection examine how success for children relates to education, family, gender, race, class, community, and the nation.... more

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    "This edited volume explores how success is conceptualized and represented in texts for young people in Asia. The essays in this collection examine how success for children relates to education, family, gender, race, class, community, and the nation. It answers the following questions: How is success for children represented in literature, cinema, and popular media? In what ways are these images grounded in the historical, political, and cultural contexts in which they are produced and consumed? How does childhood agency influence ideas about success in Asia? Highlighting the similarities and differences in how success is defined for children and young adults in Japan, South Korea, People's Republic of China, Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia, Vietnam, and India, this volume argues that success is an important keyword in the literary and cultural study of childhood in Asia"--

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Chen, Shih-Wen (Publisher); Lau, Sin Wen (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781032293806; 1032293802
    Edition: First published
    Series: Children's literature and culture
    Subjects: Erfolg <Motiv>; Kinderliteratur; Kinderfilm
    Other subjects: Children's literature / Asia / History and criticism; Children's films / Asia / History and criticism; Children in literature; Success in literature; Success in motion pictures; Children / Asia / Social conditions; Asien; Japan; Südkorea; China; Singapur; Taiwan; Indonesien; Vietnam; Indien; Essays
    Scope: XIII, 262 Seiten, illustrations (black and white), 23,5 cm
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    1 Dreams of Success: Young People, Agency, Values, and Citizenship in Asia -- Note -- References -- Part 1 Educational Success -- 2 The Grace in Failings: Reading Failure as Success in SKY Castle and Assassination Classroom -- Humans as Social Beings -- "Examination Hell" and the Evils of Success -- The World as a Pyramid -- One for All, All for One -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Success at Any Price: Exam Hell and Morita Yoshimitsu's The Family Game -- The Rise of the Entrance Exam System -- The Entrance Exam System Through the Lens of Morita Yoshimitsu -- The Family Game Revisited Thirty Years Later -- Notes -- References -- 4 Unfulfilled Dreams of IIT: Notions of Success in Five Point Someone and 3 Idiots -- The Indian Education System, IIT, and Success -- Five Point Someone: Limits of IIT Success -- 3 Idiots: Reinforcing Traditional Notions of Success -- Conclusion -- References -- Part 2 Cultural Politics of Success -- 5 Representations of Money and Success in Contemporary Chinese Children's Literature -- Money and Ideological Tension -- "To Get Rich Is Glorious": Embracing Money -- Unleashing the "Secret" of Money -- Money and Children's Agency -- Money and Social Capital -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 6 Hope, Oppression, and the Indian Urban Poor: Portrayals of Success in Trash! and Dear Mrs. Naidu -- Children's Literature in Contemporary India -- The Cultural Realm of the Urban Poor -- Friendship, Community, and Success in Dear Mrs. Naidu -- Conclusion: Success in Divergent Indian Childhoods -- References -- 7 Disappearing Girls: Gendered Success and the Reproduction of the Singapore Family in Jack Neo's Films -- Becoming Successful Women in Singapore -- Schoolgirls and Success.