Dr Lijun Bi - Researcher Profile

Biography

Lijun is a specialist in Chinese children’s literature. She is the author of Chinese Children’s Literature in the 20^th Century: Its Political and Moral Themes (2010) and has published articles on the social role of children’s books in China. Her article “Capitalist Bears and Socialist Modernisation”, Children’s Literature in Education (2003), was republished by Children’s Literature Review (2006), and cited in Wolf, S. A., et al. (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Routledge, 2011. She has been invited to contribute a chapter to Yan, W. Mallan, K. and McGillis, R., (Eds.), (Re)imagining the World: Children’s Literature’s Response to Changing Times, Springer. Lijun has also built a strong nexus between her teaching practice and her research interests in pedagogy, especially the experiential interactive and co-operative learning approach. Her other research interests include moral education in China and Chinese intellectual history.

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Qualifications

PHD

Institution: University of Melbourne

Year awarded: 2011

MASTERS OF ARTS

Institution: Monash University

Year awarded: 2005

Publications

Books

Bi, L., 2010, Chinese Children's Literature in the 20th Century, LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany.

Journal Articles

Bi, L., 2012, Chinese Language Reform and Vernacular Poetry in the Early Twentieth Century, International Journal of Business and Social Science [P], vol 3, issue 24, Centre for Promoting Ideas, New York, NY, USA, pp. 56-65.

Bi, L., 2012, Ideological inspiration for China's revolution, Agora [P], vol 47, issue 1, History Teachers' Association of Victoria, Collingwood VIC Australia, pp. 4-9.

Bi, L., 2012, Zhou Zuoren's vernacular poetry and his cult of childhood, Studies in Literature and Language [P], vol 5, issue 2, Canadian Academy of Oriental and Occidental Culture, Canada, pp. 57-62.

Bi, L., 2003, Capitalist bears and socialist modernisation: Chinese children's literature in the post-Mao period, Children's Literature in Education, vol 34, issue 1, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, USA, pp. 57-73.

Conference Proceedings

Bi, L., 2008, The militant trend in early patriotic works of modern Chinese children's literature, Proceedings of the 17th Biennial Conference of ASAA, Melbourne, Australia, 01/07/2008 - 03/07/2008, Monash University, http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/mai/asaa/index.php, pp. 1-14.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Manipulation and the translation of children's literature.

Supervisors:

Gerber, L (Main), Bi, L (Associate).