ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how “success” is a keyword for the literary and cultural study of childhood in Asia. It explicates the similarities and differences between representations of success in texts produced for young people in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, the People’s Republic of China, Vietnam, India, and Indonesia. It also outlines how the contributors to the volume analyze how factors such as education, family, nation, community, citizenship, race, class, religion, and gender affect conceptualizations of success in a globalizing Asia. The message foregrounded by the chapters is that young people need the space to redefine success on their own terms.
