Marketing Chinese Children's Books: Paratext and the Politics of Authorship
Author:   Dr Frances Weightman (Associate Professor of Chinese Studies, University of Leeds, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:  

9781350273559


Pages:   216
Publication Date:   25 June 2026
Format:   Hardback
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Marketing Chinese Children's Books: Paratext and the Politics of Authorship


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Author:   Dr Frances Weightman (Associate Professor of Chinese Studies, University of Leeds, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN:  

9781350273559


ISBN 10:   1350273554
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   25 June 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained

Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter 1: Writing for children: the contemporary scene Chapter 2: Construction of the children's author Chapter 3: Negotiating official discourse: Cao Wenxuan Chapter 4: Becoming a best-seller: Yang Hongying Chapter 5: Animal tales: Shen Shixi and Gerelchimeg Black Crane Chapter 6: Going global Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Frances Weightman is Professor of Chinese Literature at the University of Leeds, UK and is Founding-director of the Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing. She is the author of The Quest for the Childlike in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Fiction: Fantasy, Naivety and Folly (2008) and has written numerous book chapters, journal articles and edited volumes on Chinese fiction of various time periods. She is editor-in-chief of Writing Chinese: a Journal of Contemporary Sinophone Literature.

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