Asian Children's Favorite Stories: Folktales from China, Japan, Korea, India, the Philippines and Other Asian Lands (Favorite Children's Stories)

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The name Helen has Greek origins, and means ‘bright one’. Its famous namesake is a Chinese-American journalist Helen Zia. 142. Hong

Videos throughout the data essay illustrate what focus group participants discussed. Those recorded in these videos did not participate in the focus groups but were sampled to have similar demographic characteristics and thematically relevant stories.

There are only a small number of Asian-Australian authors writing about Asia in children’s/young adult fiction and there are very few books where the first-person narrator or main character is Asian or Asian-Australian.

The pitcher will try to hit the opponent with a beanbag; the one that was hit will be eliminated from the game. The opponent who catches the beanbag either will choose to “add a life” or “save a teammate’s life” from eliminations. Lapeña-Bonifacio, Amelia (1981). Sepang Loca & others. Quezon City; [Honolulu: University of the Philippine Press; Distributed outside the Philippines by University Press of Hawaii. ISBN 978-0-8248-0768-9. OCLC 8768670. On the contrary, in Asia, when the parents grow old and cannot do all of the activities because of their limitedness of physical ability, the children have to keep them. Growing up in Taiwan, the importance of lantern walk for many kids is comparable to the Halloween walk in the USA. We would make a paper lantern at school or with parents, and place a thin metal plate at the center bottom of the lantern to support a candle as the final step.

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Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Paradox of Progress – South Asia report 2017 at: https://www.dni.gov/index.php/the-next-five-years/south-asia (accessed on 5 April 2017)