The Seven Chinese Brothers

The Seven Chinese Brothers
Author: Margaret Mahy
Publisher: Perfection Learning
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1992-07
Genre: Fairy tales
ISBN: 9780780712720

Authentic retelling of the classic Chinese folktale of the seven brothers and their supernatural gifts.

The Five Chinese Brothers

The Five Chinese Brothers
Author: Claire Huchet Bishop
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Total Pages: 64
Release: 1996-06-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780833529985

Five brothers who look just alike outwit the executioner by using their extraordinary individual talents.

Seven Magic Brothers

Seven Magic Brothers
Author: Guangcai Hao
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1994
Genre: Fairy tales
ISBN: 9789573221722

Seven brothers were born, looking exactly the same as one another, and each had a unique capability.

Translating, Interpreting, and Decolonizing Chinese Fairy Tales

Translating, Interpreting, and Decolonizing Chinese Fairy Tales
Author: Juwen Zhang
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2024-10-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1666970239

Through meticulous textual and contextual analysis of the sixteenth-century Chinese tale The Seven Brothers and its fifteen contemporary variants, Juwen Zhang unveils the ways in which the translation and illustration of folk and fairy tales can perpetuate racist stereotypes. By critically examining the conscious and unconscious ideological biases harbored by translators, adapters, and illustrators, the author calls for a paradigm shift in translation practices grounded in decolonization and anti-racism to ensure respectful and inclusive representation of diverse cultures. Translating, Interpreting, and Decolonizing Chinese Fairy Tales not only offers insights for translators, researchers, and educators seeking to leverage folktales and picture books for effective children's education and entertainment, but also challenges our preconceived notions of translated and adapted folk and fairy tales.

Brothers

Brothers
Author: George Howe Colt
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2014-05-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1416547789

Blends history and memoir in an account that in alternating chapters explores the author's quest to understand the impact of his brothers on his life and the complex relationships between iconic brothers, including the Thoreaus, the Van Goghs, and the Marxes.

Multicultural Literature and Response

Multicultural Literature and Response
Author: Lynn Atkinson Smolen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 470
Release: 2010-12-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 159884475X

This compelling book emphasizes the critical role of quality multicultural literature and reader response in today's schools and libraries. All students need access to books in which they can see themselves—not just their physical appearance, but their culture and language, as well. Multicultural Literature and Response: Affirming Diverse Voices was written to help teachers and librarians find and use the best multicultural books in the service of reading comprehension and more. Underscoring the necessity of selecting quality literature that authentically, sensitively, and accurately portrays different groups, the book defines multicultural literature and provides a strong argument for its importance in schools and libraries. Expert contributors guide users to multicultural authors and illustrators who portrays U.S. ethnic and cultural groups, and they suggest ways to integrate this literature with writing, fluency development, storytelling, and audiovisuals. Extensive lists of books and websites that feature multicultural literature, as well as of authors, illustrators, and publishers of multicultural literature, make it easy to include such works in programs across the curriculum.

Asian American Identities and Practices

Asian American Identities and Practices
Author: Jonathan H. X. Lee
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2014-05-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 073914734X

Asian American Identities and Practices: Folkloric Expressions in Everyday Life probes the intersection, interplay, and interconnection of Asian and Asian American folklore and folklife in globally fluid and culturally creative landscapes among Asian American communities and subjects. Asian American folklore, as a way of life and practice, has emerged and continues to emerge as Asian Americans lay claim and take root in the American mosaic. As such, the contributors in this volume all show how the Asian American historical experiences and continued international migration inform the production of new folkloric practices, subjectivities, and ideologies, which in turn strengthen specific Asian American ways of life while normalizing folklore that are squarely produced in Asian America. This collectionillustrates that Asian American folklore and folklife is interwoven with social relationships, the creation of various types of ethnic, cultural, and national identities, and adaptive strategies within the particular historical periods, communities, and shifting boundaries and demographics of Asian America. The global context of Asian American folklore and folklife, especially in the racially charged post-9/11 context, bespeaks how Asians, past and present, maneuver the cultural spaces of their host society and old traditions to create new sites and new opportunities for cultural folkloric production and expression in everyday life.

The Five Chinese Brothers

The Five Chinese Brothers
Author: Claire Huchet Bishop
Publisher: Puffin Books
Total Pages: 70
Release: 1996-06-18
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN:

Beginning reader.

Cultural Journeys

Cultural Journeys
Author: Pamela S. Gates
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2006
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780810850798

"Cultural Journeys: Multicultural Literature for Children and Young Adults provides a mechanism for teachers, from preservice to veteran, to develop an understanding of multicultural literature and the criteria for evaluating it, as well as guidelines for teaching multicultural literature throughout the entire curriculum and not just during designated months or time periods. It promotes multicultural education in schools and provides teaching strategies and resources to benefit all students. The picture books, folklore, fairy tales, myth, legends, fantasy, historical fiction, realistic fiction, and nonfiction works for grades K-8 that are discussed illustrate both strengths and weaknesses within different literary genres and cultures. Examples of unit plans and an extensive annotated bibliography are also included."--BOOK JACKET.