With the help of the achievements on Dragonwings (1975) in the last three decades from the foreign and domestic scholars, this article is supposed to clarify the specific perspectives of these researches, such aspects as culture, history, image shaping, narratology, identity etc., pointing out that there are some biased points influenced by the subjective thinking of some researchers. Besides, this article points out the three research points for the future: to deepen the study on the issue of identity, not only from the perspective of inter-culture, but inter-society, inter-psychology, etc. ; to regard this novel as a children’s book and to analyze it from the perspective of children literature’s theory; to study the drama of Dragonwings and to do the comparative study between the fiction edition and drama one.

Huimin Liu. Literature Review on Dragonwings. Frontiers in Art Research (2021) Vol. 3, Issue 6: 43-47. https://doi.org/10.25236/FAR.2021.030611.

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