Recently, writers, critics and educators in Beijing and Shanghai organized various forums to discuss the influence and inspiration of this book on readers in China. After listening to these expert readers' interpretations of Harry Potter, I feel that the introduction of this set of books into China not only gives readers a chance to enjoy a fantastic feast as soon as possible, but also makes a wonderful demonstration for us to truly understand children and children's literature.
Beijing
Gao (musician): It's nothing like a fairy tale I saw when I was a child.
Does Harry Potter look like a typical Bowie? Refers to the film stories and novels after the screening of American films, with less psychological description, strong sense of lens and a large number of film techniques? Dislocation of sound and painting, concentration of scenes and full description of scene atmosphere are completely like watching a feature-length movie.
Harry Potter is completely different from the fairy tales I read when I was a child. There are no beautiful women and princes, but it is very integrated with the details of real life. For example, many magic tools are full of high-tech components and even models, which can be upgraded, making people almost believe that these things are around, but they are just poor muggles? Novels refer to mortals who can't do magic. Through this book, I got a glimpse of the wonderful life on the other side of the air.
Yang Peng (Children's Literature Writer): In foreign countries, writing ghosts has nothing to do with vampires, but in China it's completely different.
Harry Potter is a triumph of imagination, which shows the great potential and value of fantasy literature, but also reflects the obstacles existing in domestic children's literature. In foreign countries, writing ghosts and vampires doesn't matter, but it's very different in China. Harry Potter tells us that the key to many things is not what to write, but how to write it. In addition, modern children have different childhood experiences from previous children. Harry Potter uses many modern technologies to express children's psychological wishes. Fantasy, childishness and story playfulness are the important reasons for the success of this book, but in-depth analysis shows that this book still adopts the mode of struggle between good and evil and the theme of hero growth commonly used in fantasy literature. It can be seen that in the high-tech era, children's psychological wishes are unchanged.
He Zhenbang (literary critic): He is teaching children to play.
One of the main reasons why Harry Potter is popular all over the world is that it teaches children to play. China's children's literature is endowed with too much educational significance. One of the inspirations of the successful landing of Harry Potter is to liberate literature, break through the original concept and enter diversification.
Shanghai
Chen (famous writer, deputy editor-in-chief of Childhood): Readers need to have certain logical ability.
At first glance, this book feels like a magazine, big and thin. The English version of the sentence pattern is very simple, and we high school students can probably understand it, while the Chinese version is a bit like Andersen's fairy tales, and the translation is too adult. If you want to serialize, you need to change long sentences into short sentences first, because our newspaper is aimed at children aged 9 to 12, and their understanding of long sentences is limited.
I personally prefer this book. It creates a very realistic and illusory story, and it is a very complete story. Readers need to have a certain logical ability, which China children lack in reading literature. In addition, I like this book very much, because it is a little sad, and sadness can often move children.
Qin Wenjun (famous children's literature writer and editor-in-chief of Children's Literature in China): This book pays more attention to the dark and indifferent things in "human nature".
Some critics say that fantasy literature is the language of the night. The fantasy of Harry Potter essentially determines its dream composition. It also pays attention to more important things in fantasy literature, such as "who am I?" . This book pays more attention to the dark and indifferent things in "human nature", which is not derogatory here. Dark indifference also needs to be cultivated. I also read the scenes in the fighting animation from this book.
Mei (Professor of Chinese Department of Shanghai Normal University, critic of children's literature): When I was a child, I liked listening to ghost stories, which didn't ruin my life.
In the west, the best children's literature is in Britain and Germany. Britain is a country with a very conservative gentleman, while Germany is a country with a very rational and unimaginative mind. But the children's literature works in these two countries are full of imagination. Imagination and sense of humor are indispensable in all children's literature. Some people say that Harry Potter is terrible. When I was a child, I liked listening to ghost stories, which didn't ruin my life. Therefore, don't always worry from the perspective of adults that it will stimulate children and bring negative effects to them.
Bu Genhai (Senior Teaching and Research Fellow of Shanghai Education Commission): In the past, our training of children was too simple, and they lacked real thinking.
Regarding the book Harry Potter, I mainly talk about it from the perspective of Chinese teaching reform. The launch of this book has opened a new world for children's reading. It is no longer simply to let students judge right or wrong, but to give children a more emotional world and let them discover something. In the past, our training of children was too simple, and children lacked real thinking. 2 1 century, the idea of Chinese teaching reform hopes to cultivate talents in two aspects: on the one hand, the accumulation of culture; On the other hand, they have their own thinking, judgment and sound personality.