Monograph

Kelen, Christopher & Chengcheng You. (2022). Poetics and Ethics of Anthropomorphism: Children, Animals, and Poetry. Routledge.  https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003219330

Articles

You, Chengcheng. (2024) Animating Arboreal Agency:  New Materialities and Poetics of Anthropomorphic Trees in Children’s Literature. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. (A&HCI) DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isae033

You, Chengcheng. (2024) The Folk Phytopoetics in Cai Gao’s Visual Storytelling. Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature. Forthcoming.

You, Chengcheng. (2024). “Who Speaks for Nature? Genre, Gender and the Eco-translation of Chinese Wild Animals”. Children’s Literature in Education, 55 (2), pp. 179-197.  (A&HCI) DOI: 10.1007/s10583-022-09484-x     

You, Chengcheng. (2023) Beyond Triviality Barriers: The Transcendent Poetics of Play in Feng Zikai’s manhua Legacy. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications. (A&HCI, SSCI) DOI:10.1057/s41599-023-02480-6

You, Chengcheng. (2023) Towards a Genre of Cross-species Storytelling: Exploring Slow Narratives in Naoko Awa’s Fairy Tales. Children’s Literature in Education.(A&HCI) DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-023-09556-6

You, Chengcheng. (2023) “Children’s Gothic in Chinese Context: The Untranslatability and Cross-cultural Readability of a Literary Genre”. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, 25(2), pp. 1-14. (A&HCI) DOI:https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.4044

You, Chengcheng. (2023) Outlandish creatures and genre crossover: a Deleuzian perspective. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications.(A&HCI, SSCI) DOI:10.1057/s41599-023-02049-3

You, Chengcheng. (2023) The Glocal Practice of Anthropomorphism: Storying Chinese Wild Animals for Young Readers. International Research in Children’s Literature, 16(2), pp.155-168. (A&HCI)

You, Chengcheng. (2023) Genre, tradition and renewal: Animal autobiography and poetics of the multicentric self.  Humanities & Social Sciences Communications. (A&HCI, SSCI) DOI: 10.1057/s41599-023-01827-3  

You, Chengcheng. (2023). Storytelling for a Republic of Childhood: Rebranding China’s National Images in Children’s Literature. Neohelicon, 50(1), pp. 37-53. (A&HCI)  https://doi.org/10.1007/s11059-022-00653-x

You, Chengcheng. (2022). “The Demon Child and His Modern Fate: Reconstructing the Nezha Myth in Animated Fabulation”. animation: an interdisciplinary journal, 17(3), pp. 287-301. (A&HCI) DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1177/17468477221114365

You, Chengcheng. (2022). “Debatable genre: comparative poetics in the wild animal stories of Ernest Thompson Seton and Shixi Shen”. Neohelicon, 49(1), pp. 321-336. (A&HCI) DOI:10.1007/s11059-021-00616-8 

Kelen,Christopher & Chengcheng You. (2021). “They’d Eaten Every One”: Food Anthropomorphism in “The Walrus and the Carpenter”, English Studies, 102(6), pp. 671-689. (A&HCI) DOI: 1080/0013838X.2021.1952529

You, Chengcheng. (2021). The Necessity of an Anthropomorphic Approach to Children’s Literature. Children’s Literature in Education, 52 (2), pp. 183-199. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-020-09409-6 (A&HCI)

You, Chengcheng. (2019). Aesthetic Dilemma of Adaptation and Politics of Subjectivity: Animating the Chinese Classic Journey to the West. International Research in Children’s Literature, 12(1), pp. 34-46. (A&HCI) DOI: 10.3366/ircl.2019.0289

You, Chengcheng. (2019). The Cultural Poetics of Anthropomorphism: Rereading a Chinese Fable. History of Education & Children’s Literature, 14(1), pp. 465-486. (A&HCI)

You, Chengcheng. (2019). Representing Zoo Animals: The Other-than-Anthropocentric in Anthony Browne’s Picturebooks. The Lion and the Unicorn,43(1), pp. 22-41. (A&HCI) DOI: 10.1353/uni.2019.0002

Kelen, Christopher, and Chengcheng You. (2019). Liminal Encounters: Ethics of Anthropomorphism in the Poetry of Levertov, Szymborska and Fulton. Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal, 52 (2), pp. 147-65. (A&HCI)

You, Chengcheng. (2019). New Realities and Representations of Homelessness in Chinese Children’s Literature in an Era of Urbanization. Children’s Literature in Education, 50(4), pp. 365-380. (A&HCI) https://doi.org/10.1007/s10583-018-9364-8

You, Chengcheng. (2018). Harmony, Home and Anthropomorphism: Representation of Minority Nationalities in Contemporary Chinese Ethnic Children’s Literature. Children’s Literature in Education, 49(4), pp. 499-515. (A&HCI) DOI: 10.1007/s10583-017-9318-6

Book Chapters

You, Chengcheng. (2024). Re-engendering the genre: critical anthropomorphism in the eco-translation of Chinese wild animal stories. In Maria Dasca & Rosa Ceraols (Eds.), Translation Studies and Ecology (pp. 163-185). Routledge.

You, Chengcheng. (2022). Hidden Atrocities in Cinematic Representations of Chinese Girlhoods. In Victoria Nesfield and Philip Smith (Eds.), Representing Childhood and Atrocity (pp. 253-272). SUNY.

You, Chengcheng. (2018). Picturing a Posthuman Identity: Personhood, Affect and Companionship Ethics in Mary Liddell’s Little Machinery and Shaun Tan’s The Lost Thing. In Anna Kerchy (Ed.), Posthumanism in Fantastic Fiction(pp.133-147). Creative Commons e-book.

You, Chengcheng. (2017). Ghostly Vestiges of Strange Tales: Horror, History and the Haunted Chinese Child. In Jackson, Anna (Ed.), New Directions in Children’s Gothic: Debatable Lands(pp.81-101). Routledge.

You, Chengcheng and Chrysogonus Siddha Malilang. (2016). Playtime in Playworld: How Children Learn to Rule. In Christopher Kelen and Bjorn Sundmark (Eds.), Child Governance and Autonomy in Children’s Literature: Where Children Rule (pp.218-230). Routledge.