Restorations Of The History Of Picture Books In Contemporary China

The literary history of picture books is concealed in Chinese children's literature, which means that there is no systemic description of original picture books in the history books recording contemporary children's literature. The paper tries to restore the history of picture books in contemporary China taking Juvenile & Children's Publishing House in shanghai China as an example.As a trend of thought in children's literature and art in that time, the themes of political and educational contexts are the mainstreams of the picture books discovered. The authors strive to enrich the artistic forms of picture books in two ways. The first one is to innovate in the formats, methods of drawing and canvas sizes, etc. The other is to make the stories in the books more interesting or pleasant for children to read.The paper also tries to refresh the ways of writing literary history of Chinese children's literature, concerning the developments of the artistic connotation of picture books and human values contained in the picture books, which also provides history room for cross-civilization dialogues about picture books and benefits the developments of the theory of Chinese children's literature. By this way, authors of picture books nowdays can borrow ideas from historical origin of the picture books in contemporary China and share ideas with creators of picture books in other contries, to create new original picture book forms.