Giving the Young Pioneer Salute from the capital in BeijingĬontinue reading → Presentism and Comics StudiesĮarlier this week, I received some comments from a reader regarding my research focus to “understand Chinese comics from the perspective of the present,” included in a previous post on this blog. I want to know everything about the future, everything!!ĭear Editor Big Friend, please reply straightaway!! Will a little plane like this be possible in the future? Everest? And then, just like that, from the highest peak in the world back home. By then, can we have a little plane that can fly me here and there, from Beijing to Mt. What I really want to know is: what our country will be like when I’m one hundred years old. I’m eleven years old this year, in the fourth grade. My name is “Ai Kexue”, but they also call me “Xiao Huanxiang”. Just look, here’s one I received just yesterday, from a little friend in Beijing: In these letters from all corners of our country, at least six or seven out of ten asks, “What’s the future going to be like?” Some are from Shanghai, others are from Beijing, Jiangsu, Hunan, Jilin, Sichuan, Gansu there are also letters from Heilongjiang, Xinjiang, Hainan Island and Tibet. ![]() I wouldn’t be at all exaggerating if I were to say that I have little friends around every corner.Įveryday, the postperson gives me a big bundle of letters. It’s really true, isn’t it? Compared to all of you ‘little friends’, I really am a ‘big friend.’ But I really do have lots of little friends. Every letter begins the same: “Dear Big Friend Editor: Hello!” I’m not that old-if you add your own age to your little brother’s age, then that’s about how old I am. The Colorful Nightscape of the City……………….58Ī Letter from Little Smarty………………………….119 ContentsĬleverly Disposing of Dirty Oil…………………….49Īn Interesting New Kind of Movie……………….52 In the mobilization of the Four Modernizations, in regards to cultivating children’s love of science from a young age and raising children’s interest in science, this work has positive educational value. The content is rich and colorful, the story is vivid and interesting, completely pulling the reader in. The work introduces hovercraft, videophones, videowatches, mini-helicopters, flying cars, robots, artificial rice and protein, hydroponics, multicolored cotton, 3D movies, the school of the future, and more than two dozen other new sciences and technologies. Through the story of Little Smarty Visiting the City, the long-term prospects of future scientific and technological development and the People’s shining happy lives are shown. ![]() To read a recent translation of a lianhuanhua (comic book) adaptation of Little Smarty, also available in its entirety online, see here. ![]() Interested publishing houses can contact me here. International rights are held by the Ye family. In order to reach the widest possible audience, I will will be posting my translation online. ![]() Ye passed away on May 15 of this year, and his son, Ye Dan 叶丹, has kindly given me permission to translate this groundbreaking work into English. What follows is the first instalment of a six-part draft translation of Ye Yonglie’s 叶永烈 (1940–2020) classic illustrated children’s chapter book Little Smarty Visits the Future 《小灵通漫游未来》, first published by Young Children’s Press 少年儿童出版社 in Shanghai in August, 1978, with illustrations by Du Jianguo 杜建国.
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