Classic Retelling of Original"Chinese-style"Picture Books from a Gender Perspective
"Chinese-style"picture books,as a rising force among original picture books,have gained considerable recognition from children's book consumers due to their more authentic understanding and retelling of traditional Chi-nese culture and literary classics.Within the realm of"Chinese-style"picture books,which excel in retelling classics,the gender narrative,as one of the important dimensions of the text,still largely follows the conventional gender discourse patterns inherited from traditional scripts and literary genres.However,in the past five to six years,a distinctive"innova-tive"retelling has emerged within"Chinese-style"picture books,particularly concerning the most widely-involved iden-tity categorization of"gender"and its narration.This is mainly manifested in the creation of new legends featuring pow-erful female protagonists with significant"gender reversal"implications within the retelling scripts of folk tales,as well as the increasing emergence of texts from a female perspective and stories portraying female desires in retelling scripts of literary classics,including the rise of"beyond gender/dual-gender"narratives.These changes have expanded new ways of thinking and territories for contemporary literary gender narratives and the retelling of"Chinese classics",add-ing new possibilities for narratives of gender equality.
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