ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how the history of the Sino-Japanese War (SJW) has been reflected in print-entertainment available to generations of young people from the beginning of the war to the present. Relying on a quantitative content analysis of the bare bones of a vast body of SJW stories, it generates a big revealing picture of the war as portrayed in Chinese youth literature, showing the dominant pattern of when and where the stories take place, and what and whose activities are commemorated. Military activities dominate the subject matter of SJW stories in lian huan hua (LHH). The SJW stories highlights combat stories, male war heroes, and a handful of woman warriors who can fight as fiercely as men. A small sample of twenty-two well-circulated youth literature titles is found to be the work of mostly male writers, including many ex-army men and senior Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members, mirroring the masculinity of topics and partisanship of themes.
