The second volume is full of glory and splendor in the capital, and the spirit is full of vitality in the foggy city. Chapter 181: Xiaobaiwen (Part 2)
This chapter's subtitle: The evil hand reaching out to the world's flower buds
Apart from other things, the book written by Yuan Hongjian a hundred years later has very unhealthy ideas.
Other people's books say don't despise poor young people, but his book says poor young people everywhere must first understand why they are poor. After understanding this...
It’s no wonder that this kind of book is unpopular, and it deserves to be 404ed.
Forget it, I won’t think about such bad things anymore. I’ll just focus on my development in children’s literature.
As we all know, the Renaissance broke the shackles of Western thought. The Industrial Revolution and colonial development not only allowed Westerners to live a good life, but also allowed civic culture to flourish.
When both the soft and hard conditions were in place, the prosperity of Western literature in the 17th and 18th centuries was a natural outcome, and at the same time, a large number of children's literature works naturally emerged.
At the beginning of the 20th century, when Yuan Yanshu was living, someone proposed the "child-centered theory", and child-centrism was born.
This gentleman is Professor John Dewey, the mentor of Hu Shih-chih and Chiang Menglin, who is currently lecturing in Seres.
He proposed that children are the starting point, center, and purpose of education. The development and growth of children are the ideal. Child education is a process of promoting innate psychological functions such as habits, emotions, impulses, and wisdom, centered around instinctive activities.
This is also the theoretical basis of happy education in later generations.
However, child-centrism has become an overreaction, or more precisely, it has been distorted with ulterior motives.
Because the inculcation of knowledge, especially strict elite education, is definitely not a pleasant process for most children.
Thus, in later Western countries, children from working-class families spent a happy childhood in public schools, and then happily took over their parents' jobs. Children from elite families spent a hard childhood in private schools, and then worked hard to take over their parents' jobs.
For example, the granddaughter of our Emperor Trump can speak fluent Chinese at such a young age, but can learning Chinese make a little girl like her happy?
It is also foreseeable that this would-be white, rich, and beautiful woman will definitely not have an easy life when she grows up. She will either become the female president of the United States or the American version of President Ma.
Therefore, Yuan Yan suddenly discovered that "Fights Break Sphere" is really suitable for children of this age, especially Seres children.
Apart from the Crystal Palace and the bitter hatred that are not suitable for children, the main themes of this book are "passion" and "struggle"!
For children around the world in the early twentieth century, there was nothing wrong with that.
It seems that this children's literature writer himself has to become one!
The next thing to do is to give myself a cool pen name...
White Pawn - White Soldier, this is one of Mr. Yuan Yanshu's pen names "Six Color Chess Pieces". He translated it into White Stormtrooper. However, it was later changed to White Soldier because it had the same name as the Nazi Stormtrooper. This is the pen name he used when he published children's literature..
His first children's novel, Battle Through the Heavens, began in 1921 and was serialized simultaneously in the United States and China in both Chinese and English versions. This imaginative fantasy novel immediately captured the hearts of children in both the East and the West, and even attracted many adult readers. It was subsequently translated into numerous languages and arguably became the most influential children's literature of the first half of the 20th century, until Yuan wrote the Harry Potter series in the 1940s.
The protagonist of the Harry Potter series is a magical girl living in Alaska, . The story tells of her and her friends fighting against Vladimir Vissarionovich Rasputin, a demon from the other side of the Bering Strait. This novel was banned after the founding of the People's Republic of China for some reason.
According to Mr. Yuan, Fights Break Sphere was originally a bedtime story he told his good friend's children, but it eventually became a novel of over five million words. Of course, for a literary genius like him, it's not surprising that a bedtime story became a classic.
In 1922, he won the first Newbery Medal for Best Children's Book for this work. This award was created by the American Library Association (ALA) branch - the American Association of Libraries and Children (ALSC) to reward outstanding works of English children's literature published in the previous year..
In Chuisi heard that this was the first literary award won by the greatest writer of the 20th century. Although Yuan Yanshu later repeatedly declined the Nobel Prize in Literature, he was very happy to receive the award and donated the entire prize money to his alma mater, the Department of Education at New York University.
In his home country, "Fights Break Sphere" has also garnered widespread acclaim. Both Zhou Zuoren and Zheng Zhenduo, two of the founding fathers of Chinese children's literature theory, have praised the work highly. Zhou Zuoren called it "a powerful tool for improving ," while Zheng Zhenduo considered it a major breakthrough in the children's literature genre.
——Excerpt from "The Complete Works of Yuan Yanshu — Preface to Children's Literature"
"Ah, the children have gone to bed, so we..." Ms. Brooks put her arms around his neck, gave him a sweet kiss, and whispered in his ear, "It's time to go to bed too."
Yes, after planning children's literature, the next step is to do something that is not suitable for children.
Our Master Yuan gave Ms. Brooks a wicked smile and took out the two artifacts bestowed by the Prince of Lies...
"Host, there is a being who wants to speak to you."
"Master Ball, now?! Oh, and you said existence... what on earth is that thing that wants to talk to me?"
"Host, the one who wishes to speak to you is the distressed girl from the wasteland of destruction and despair."
Oh, isn't this person the famous sadistic goddess in the Forgotten Realms, Lovieter of the lawful evil camp!
I have to say, this is also a very listening god...
These high-dimensional beings are indeed experts at playing, and they are quite professional at COSPLAY. They even created the Girl of Pain.
"Master Ball, Lovita won't take you over directly like His Majesty Cyric did, right?"
"Host, the Maiden of Pain has weak divine power and insufficient authority. Therefore, she cannot achieve the same level as the Prince of Lies."
"Master Ball, that's good." In that case, our Master Yuan said decisively: "I won't take it!"
"And add her to my blacklist!"
