Editing Children's literature (section)

===China===
{{Main|Children's literature in China}}
The [[1911 Revolution]] and [[World War II]] brought political and social change that revolutionized children's literature in China. Western science, technology, and literature became fashionable. China's first modern publishing firm, [[Commercial Press]], established several children's magazines, which included ''Youth Magazine'', and ''Educational Pictures for Children''.<ref name="int.comp.ency" />{{rp|832–833}} The first Chinese children's writer was [[Sun Yuxiu]], an editor of Commercial Press, whose story ''The Kingdom Without a Cat'' was written in the language of the time instead of the classical style used previously. Yuxiu encouraged novelist [[Mao Dun|Shen Dehong]] to write for children as well. Dehong went on to rewrite 28 stories based on classical Chinese literature specifically for children. In 1932, [[Zhang Tianyi]] published ''Big Lin and Little Lin'', the first full-length Chinese novel for children.<ref name="int.comp.ency" />{{rp|833–834}}

The [[Chinese Communist Revolution]] changed children's literature again. Many children's writers were denounced, but Tianyi and [[Ye Shengtao]] continued to write for children and created works that were aligned with [[Maoism|Maoist]] ideology. The 1976 death of [[Mao Zedong]] provoked more changes that swept China. The work of many writers from the early part of the century became available again. In 1990 came ''General Anthology of Modern Children's Literature of China'', a fifteen-volume anthology of children's literature since the 1920s.<ref name="int.comp.ency" />{{rp|834–835}}