Chengcheng You
Biographic Data
| ID | 3859423 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chengcheng You |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chengcheng |
| FAMILY NAME | You |
| SIGNATURE | YOU C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Macau |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9403-7346 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Eco-aspirational Children’s Fiction as Multispecies Ethnography
Towards a Genre of Cross-Species Storytelling
Who Speaks for Nature? Genre, Gender and the Eco-translation of Chinese Wild Animals
Beyond triviality barriers
Despite the socio-political upheavals that marked twentieth-century China, Feng Zikai (豐子愷,1898–1975), a Chinese artist and writer, invariably figures his art forms with child subjects in ways that encapsulate a childhood idyll reminiscent of the ancient genre of painting children at play. Drawing from Feng’s manhua anthology, this study delves into the multimodal representations of children’s play to uncover the intertwined social, aesthetic, an…
Genre, tradition and renewal
The development of animal autobiography as a genre has been constrained by the narrative possibility and epistemological impossibility of animals as autobiographers. In spite of its limitations, animal autobiography has still developed into different generic forms. Noting the generic tradition and renewal as well as the ethical ramifications in animal autobiography, this study examines how animal selfhood is constructed to render varieties of aut…
Outlandish creatures and genre crossover in young adult liminal fantasy
This study employs Deleuze’s concept of “deterritorialisation” to examine how young adult liminal fantasy can blend genre expectations and engage in environmental enquiry for a young adult audience. The term “outlandish creatures” is introduced to denote these improbable nonhuman characters that inhabit imaginary worlds in YA liminal fantasy where they exist intrinsically in young protagonists’ daily lives, exemplifying the genre’s propensity to …
The Glocal Practice of Anthropomorphism
This article examines the generic dilemma in the representation of realistic wild animals in Shixi Shen’s Jackal and Wolf (2012) and Gerelchimeg Blackcrane’s Black Flame (2013), whereby the glocal features of anthropomorphism are found pertaining to the narrative artistry. Drawn from anthropomorphism studies, literary animal studies, and Chinese cultural tradition, it is argued that Shen’s mode of narration subscribes to the generic hybridity as …
Children’s Gothic in the Chinese Context
As an emerging literary subgenre in the twenty-first century, Children’s Gothic challenges and blends the norms of both children’s literature and Gothic literature, featuring child characters’ self-empowerment in the face of fears and dark impulses. The foreignness and strangeness that pertain to the genre haunt the border of its translatability. Daniel Handler’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (1999–2006), written under the pseudonym Lemony Snic…
Debatable genre
The Demon Child and His Modern Fate
Emerging from the 17th-century Chinese classic Fengshen yanyi ( Creation of the Gods), a generic mixture of myth, folklore, history and legend, Nezha, a 7-year-old superboy who is decreed by fate to return his own flesh and bones to his parents and unyieldingly confront paternal authority in combat, has been popularized as an unconventional hero in animated adaptations since the 1970s. This article examines the cultural and historical significanc…
Storytelling for a republic of childhood
The Necessity of an Anthropomorphic Approach to Children’s Literature
They’d Eaten Every One”
A crucial and under-examined aspect of “The Walrus and the Carpenter” in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass (1871) is the relationship between euphemism and atrocity in the dealings with the anthropomorphised entities that are – or are in danger of becoming – food. Based on a close reading of the poem, this article explores how aesthetics and ethics work in considerations of form and courtesy, which impact the lives of such anthropomorphis…
Aesthetic Dilemmas of Adaptation and the Politics of Subjectivity
This article reviews four major Chinese animated adaptations based on the classic Journey to the West. It shows how these adaptations, spanning four historical phases of modern China, encapsulate changes in Chinese national identity. Close readings underpin a developmental narrative about how Chinese animated adaptations of this canonical text strive to negotiate the multimodal expressions of homegrown folklore traditions, technical influences of…
Liminal Encounters
This essay examines conceptions of animals and human-animal relations in the poetry of Denise Levertov, Wisława Szymborska, and Alice Fulton, with a focus on whether human thinking can take us beyond the limits of a poetic construction of animals as others
Harmony, Home and Anthropomorphism
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Harmony, Home and Anthropomorphism
Aesthetic Dilemmas of Adaptation and the Politics of Subjectivity
This article reviews four major Chinese animated adaptations based on the classic Journey to the West. It shows how these adaptations, spanning four historical phases of modern China, encapsulate changes in Chinese national identity. Close readings underpin a developmental narrative about how Chinese animated adaptations of this canonical text strive to negotiate the multimodal expressions of homegrown folklore traditions, technical influences of…
Liminal Encounters
This essay examines conceptions of animals and human-animal relations in the poetry of Denise Levertov, Wisława Szymborska, and Alice Fulton, with a focus on whether human thinking can take us beyond the limits of a poetic construction of animals as others
The Necessity of an Anthropomorphic Approach to Children’s Literature
They’d Eaten Every One”
A crucial and under-examined aspect of “The Walrus and the Carpenter” in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass (1871) is the relationship between euphemism and atrocity in the dealings with the anthropomorphised entities that are – or are in danger of becoming – food. Based on a close reading of the poem, this article explores how aesthetics and ethics work in considerations of form and courtesy, which impact the lives of such anthropomorphis…
Debatable genre
The Demon Child and His Modern Fate
Emerging from the 17th-century Chinese classic Fengshen yanyi ( Creation of the Gods), a generic mixture of myth, folklore, history and legend, Nezha, a 7-year-old superboy who is decreed by fate to return his own flesh and bones to his parents and unyieldingly confront paternal authority in combat, has been popularized as an unconventional hero in animated adaptations since the 1970s. This article examines the cultural and historical significanc…
Storytelling for a republic of childhood
Beyond triviality barriers
Despite the socio-political upheavals that marked twentieth-century China, Feng Zikai (豐子愷,1898–1975), a Chinese artist and writer, invariably figures his art forms with child subjects in ways that encapsulate a childhood idyll reminiscent of the ancient genre of painting children at play. Drawing from Feng’s manhua anthology, this study delves into the multimodal representations of children’s play to uncover the intertwined social, aesthetic, an…
Genre, tradition and renewal
The development of animal autobiography as a genre has been constrained by the narrative possibility and epistemological impossibility of animals as autobiographers. In spite of its limitations, animal autobiography has still developed into different generic forms. Noting the generic tradition and renewal as well as the ethical ramifications in animal autobiography, this study examines how animal selfhood is constructed to render varieties of aut…
Outlandish creatures and genre crossover in young adult liminal fantasy
This study employs Deleuze’s concept of “deterritorialisation” to examine how young adult liminal fantasy can blend genre expectations and engage in environmental enquiry for a young adult audience. The term “outlandish creatures” is introduced to denote these improbable nonhuman characters that inhabit imaginary worlds in YA liminal fantasy where they exist intrinsically in young protagonists’ daily lives, exemplifying the genre’s propensity to …
The Glocal Practice of Anthropomorphism
This article examines the generic dilemma in the representation of realistic wild animals in Shixi Shen’s Jackal and Wolf (2012) and Gerelchimeg Blackcrane’s Black Flame (2013), whereby the glocal features of anthropomorphism are found pertaining to the narrative artistry. Drawn from anthropomorphism studies, literary animal studies, and Chinese cultural tradition, it is argued that Shen’s mode of narration subscribes to the generic hybridity as …
Children’s Gothic in the Chinese Context
As an emerging literary subgenre in the twenty-first century, Children’s Gothic challenges and blends the norms of both children’s literature and Gothic literature, featuring child characters’ self-empowerment in the face of fears and dark impulses. The foreignness and strangeness that pertain to the genre haunt the border of its translatability. Daniel Handler’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (1999–2006), written under the pseudonym Lemony Snic…
Who Speaks for Nature? Genre, Gender and the Eco-translation of Chinese Wild Animals
Towards a Genre of Cross-Species Storytelling
Eco-aspirational Children’s Fiction as Multispecies Ethnography
Art (14 works) · Aesthetics (13 works) · Literature (13 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Narrative (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (7 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (7 works) · History (7 works) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (6 works)