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This study attempts to examine the cultural status and role of Chinese rural children’s novels in the process of Chinese Dream being actualized and shared in reality. To that end, this study first considered China’s rural policy from the 1980s to 2018 and the changes in spatial images and children’s figures in children’s rural novels. The result shows that children’s novels have used rural and rural children’s figures in a way that suited national ideology, actively embracing the government’s policy of dualization of urban and rural area rather than reflecting the actual reality of rural areas. I then analyzed We Live in Wu Ling Yuan(家住武陵源) and Running Dai Erniu(奔跑的岱二牛) as texts for the new-era Chinese Children’s Literature. The Rural Dream in children’s rural novels embodies the current problems of rural area and the concerns related to the growth of children, and solves them through literary imagination. In the process, readers who indirectly experience the inner growth of the main character and the ontological and epistemic changes share the ideological fantasies of the Chinese Dream and form a rational and emotional consensus. However, urban and rural hierarchies still exist in the new-era rural children’s novels, which also applies to the Han, China’s main nationality, and ethnic minorities. ‘Improvement and education’ are required for the Han male children and ‘conservation and conformity of traditional culture’ for minority ethnic female children. The mechanism is naturally internalized in the text and forms a strong deep structure, roughly and arbitrarily combining ‘child growth’ with ‘development of rural areas’. In this way, China’s Rural Dream is incarnated in the novels, taking root in the minds of children and adolescents.

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