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Otterbein University

Chinese Culture and History; Children's picture literature; Picture Books; Westerville Public Library; Educational Quality And Accuracy; authentic and accurate representations;

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Representations Of Chinese Culture And History In Picture Books Of The Westerville Public Library: Educational Quality And Accuracy Of Children Literature About China And Chinese Culture, Han Zhang May 2011

Representations Of Chinese Culture And History In Picture Books Of The Westerville Public Library: Educational Quality And Accuracy Of Children Literature About China And Chinese Culture, Han Zhang

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In order to learn about the educational quality and accuracy of most children's picture literature accessible to readers of Westerville area, which aim to illustrate and introduce the content of Chinese culture and history, the author of this paper examines whether children's picture books in the Westerville Public Library serve American readers as authentic and accurate representations of Chinese culture and its history. Based on the ardent debates of former researcher, the author discusses frequent mistakes existing in most picture books. Later, the author collects data and uses estimation and hypothesis testing to prove the error rate of the whole …