All Stories

  1. Eco-aspirational Children’s Fiction as Multispecies Ethnography

    Article • Children s Literature in Education, May 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Chengcheng You

  2. Animating Arboreal Agency: New Materialities and Poetics of Anthropomorphic Trees in Children’s Literature

    Article • ISLE Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, June 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Chengcheng You

  3. Re-engendering the genre

    Article • February 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Chengcheng You

  4. The Folk Phytopoetics in Cai Gao’s Visual Storytelling

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2024, Project Muse

    Chengcheng You

  5. Beyond triviality barriers: the transcendent poetics of play in Feng Zikai’s manhua legacy

    Article • Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, December 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Chengcheng You

  6. Towards a Genre of Cross-Species Storytelling: Exploring Slow Narratives in Naoko Awa’s Fairy Tales

    Article • Children s Literature in Education, October 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Chengcheng You

  7. Children’s Gothic in the Chinese Context: The Untranslatability and Cross-Cultural Readability of a Literary Genre

    Article • CLCWeb Comparative Literature and Culture, October 2023, Purdue University (bepress)

    Chengcheng You

  8. Outlandish creatures and genre crossover in young adult liminal fantasy: a Deleuzian perspective

    Article • Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, August 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Chengcheng You

  9. Genre, tradition and renewal: Animal autobiography and poetics of the multicentric self

    Article • Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, June 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Chengcheng You

  10. The Glocal Practice of Anthropomorphism: Storying Chinese Wild Animals for Young Readers

    Article • International Research in Children s Literature, June 2023, Edinburgh University Press

    Chengcheng You

  11. Storytelling for a republic of childhood: rebranding China’s national images in children’s literature

    Article • Neohelicon, November 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Chengcheng You

  12. The Demon Child and His Modern Fate: Reconstructing the Nezha Myth in Animated Fabulation

    Article • Animation, November 2022, SAGE Publications

    Chengcheng You

  13. Who Speaks for Nature? Genre, Gender and the Eco-translation of Chinese Wild Animals

    Article • Children s Literature in Education, March 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Chengcheng You

  14. Debatable genre: comparative poetics in the wild animal stories of Ernest Thompson Seton and Shixi Shen

    Article • Neohelicon, February 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Chengcheng You

  15. Beware the Jubjub Bird

    Article • September 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Chengcheng You

  16. Carnivorous Companions

    Article • September 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Chengcheng You

  17. Dear Little Man

    Article • September 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Chengcheng You

  18. How Practical Are These Cats?

    Article • September 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Chengcheng You

  19. If You Go Down to the Woods Today

    Article • September 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Chengcheng You

  20. Introduction

    Article • September 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Chengcheng You

  21. The Little Dog Laughed to See Such Sport

    Article • September 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Chengcheng You

  22. This Little Piggie Went to Market

    Article • September 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Chengcheng You

  23. Poetics and Ethics of Anthropomorphism

    Article • September 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Chengcheng You

  24. “They’d Eaten Every One”: Food Anthropomorphism in “The Walrus and the Carpenter”

    Article • English Studies, July 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Chengcheng You

  25. The Necessity of an Anthropomorphic Approach to Children’s Literature

    Article • Children s Literature in Education, April 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Chengcheng You

  26. Aesthetic Dilemmas of Adaptation and the Politics of Subjectivity: Animating the Chinese Classic Journey to the West

    Article • International Research in Children s Literature, July 2019, Edinburgh University Press

    Chengcheng You, Chengcheng You

  27. Representing Zoo Animals: The Other-than-Anthropocentric in Anthony Browne's Picture Books

    Article • The Lion and the Unicorn, January 2019, Project Muse

    Chengcheng You

  28. New Realities and Representations of Homelessness in Chinese Children’s Literature in an Era of Urbanization

    Article • Children s Literature in Education, July 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Chengcheng You

  29. Posthumanism in Fantastic Fiction

    Article • January 2018, University of Szeged

    Chengcheng You

  30. Harmony, Home and Anthropomorphism: Representation of Minority Nationalities in Contemporary Chinese Ethnic Children’s Literature

    Article • Children s Literature in Education, May 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Chengcheng You

  31. Ghostly Vestiges of Strange Tales

    Article • March 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Chengcheng You

  32. Child Autonomy and Child Governance in Children's Literature

    Article • November 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Chengcheng You

  33. Cao Wenxuan: Author – China

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2016, Project Muse

    Chengcheng You

  34. Feret Avci: Illustrator – Turkey

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2016, Project Muse

    Chengcheng You

  35. Sonia Nimr: Author – Palestine

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2016, Project Muse

    Chengcheng You

  36. Ted van Lieshout: Author – Netherlands

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2016, Project Muse

    Chengcheng You

  37. Zhu Chengliang: Illustrator – China

    Article • Bookbird A Journal of International Children s Literature, January 2016, Project Muse

    Chengcheng You

  38. Strange Encounter: Depicting An “Other” Reality for Young Readers

    Article • Journal of Urban Society s Arts, April 2015, Institut Seni Indonesia Yogyakarta

    Chengcheng You