This symposium brings together scholars from China, Taiwan, Korea, and a British scholar long based in Japan to explore the rich tapestry of children’s literature and childhood in East Asia, highlighting its distinctive features compared to its English counterpart.
With their diverse research backgrounds in and beyond East Asia, the four speakers explore topics ranging from the evolution of Chinese fairy tales and their social relevance to the global circulation of Taiwanese picturebooks, from Korean picturebooks and their contemporary perspectives on childhood to the differing traditions in Japanese and English children’s literature.
Through four presentations and a subsequent discussion, the symposium examines the diverse traditions, evolving narratives, and cultural nuances that have shaped children’s literature across East Asia throughout its history and continue to influence its development. The symposium promises fresh insights into how children’s literature in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and China evolved and where they might be heading.
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日時：2025年2月6日（木）15時〜17時45分（JST）
場所：オンライン（Zoom） こちらよりご登録ください。
言語：英語
発表題名と登壇者：
1. “Tonghua in Transition: The Chinese Fairy Tale without Fairies”
石晓菲（蘇州大学外国語学部 副主任・教授）
2. “Taiwanese Picturebooks as ‘World Literature’: Guji Guji and The Orange Horse”
吳玫瑛（国立成功大学台湾文学科 特聘教授・中国語センター所長）
3. “Korean Picturebook Studies and Contemporary Views of Children”
尹惠貞（一橋大学 言語社会研究科 研究員）
4. “Pictorial History and Poetry: Different Traditions in Japanese and English Children’s Literature”
ドミニク・チータム（上智大学英文学科 教授）
司会：張政婷（EAA特任研究員）
主催：東京大学東アジア藝文書院（EAA） 、科研費研究活動スタート支援「Exploring Adulthood in Contemporary Crossover Picturebooks: Comparative Analysis across the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan, and Taiwan」（研究代表者：張政婷）