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This edited volume explores how success is conceptualized and represented in texts for young people in Asia.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Dreams of Success: Young People, Agency, Values, and Citizenship in Asia
Shih-Wen Sue Chen and Sin Wen Lau
I. Educational Success
Chapter 2: The Grace in Failings: Reading Failure as Success in
SKY Castle and
Assassination Classroom Sambhabi Ghosh
Chapter 3: Success at Any Price: Exam Hell and Morita Yoshimitsu's
The Family GameKelly Hansen
Chapter 4: Unfulfilled Dreams of IIT: Notions of Success in
Five Point Someone and
3 Idiots Rizia Begum Laskar
II. Cultural Politics of Success
Chapter 5: Representations of Money and Success in Contemporary Chinese Children's Literature
Ying Zou
Chapter 6: Hope, Oppression, and the Indian Urban Poor: Portrayals of Success in
Trash! and
Dear Mrs. Naidu Shriya Kuchibhotla
Chapter 7: Disappearing Girls: Gendered Success and the Reproduction of the Singapore Family in Jack Neo's Films
Shih-Wen Sue Chen and Sin Wen Lau
III. Success and the Nation
Chapter 8: To Be Red: Child Propagandists and Their Success in the Cultural Revolution
Yi Ren
Chapter 9: Reaching for the Stars: Identity and Success in Three Indonesian Children's Films
Nia Nafisah
Chapter 10: Becoming Indonesian: Political Constructions of Successful Children in
Aku Ingin Menciummu Sekali Saja and
Denias Senandung di Atas AwanSatrya Wibawa
Chapter 11: Messages of "Success" in Popular Taiwanese Children's Books
Agnes Tang and Ivy Haoyin Hsieh
IV. Success in the World
Chapter 12: Youth Ecoagency in Two Chinese Science Fiction Films on Environmental Disasters
Fengxia Tan and Claudia Nelson
Chapter 13: Saviors of the World: Impersonality and Success in Shinkai Makoto's Animated Films
Katsuya Izumi
Chapter 14: Cultivating Dreams: Becoming Middle-class and Affluent in Globalizing Urban Vietnam
Catherine Earl
Chapter 15: Semiotic Representations of Success in English-Language Picturebooks for Young Korean Children
Jennifer M. Graff and Eun Young Yeom
About the author
Shih-Wen Sue Chen (PhD, ANU) is an Associate Professor in Writing and Literature at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.
Sin Wen Lau (PhD, ANU) is Senior Lecturer in the Chinese Program at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Summary
This edited volume explores how success is conceptualized and represented in texts for young people in Asia.
