Tomoko Narumi

Ye-shaojun is a representative writer in the history of modern (Chinese) juvenile literature. He wrote a lot of stories for children. Especially, he wrote the first Chinese fairy tales. Most of his fairy tales were printed in the magazine "Children's World". This magazine was first issued in 1922 and was the first juvenile magazine in China. The chief editor of this magazine was Zheng-zhenduo and he published a lot of fairy tales in the magazine. At the beginning, the most of works were translations from Japanese and European magazines. But later, the first Chinese original juvenile literature appeared in the eighth issue. That was "A Seed" by Ye-shaojun. This work had a great impact on the Chinese juvenile literature. His style on this work became the mainstream of juvenile literature in China. In this thesis, creative juvenile literature in China is studied, mainly on "A Seed".