Huiqin Wang : Slovenian-Chinese illustrator and author of a multicultural and multilingual picturebooks tetralogy

Blažič, Milena (author)

This study presents a hermeneutic analysis of four major picturebooks by Slovenian-Chinese artist-scholar Huiqin Wang. It positions her authorial trilogy (Ferdinand Avguštin Hallerstein, Giuseppe Castiglione, and I, Marco Polo) as a cohesive model of "individualised universality" for narrating historical East-West encounters, while examining the collaborative Little Alma on a Great Journey as a distinct expansion into psychological interiority. Drawing on frameworks from picturebook theory (Nikolajeva & Scott, 2006), chronotopic analysis (Bakhtin, 1981), and cultural memory studies (Juvan, 2008), this study argues that Wang's multilingual, multigenre works constitute sophisticated artistic research functioning as polysemic instruments of cultural translation. Her work "worlds" Slovenian historical figures within the global imagination by mapping the spatial, temporal, and emotional coordinates of cross-cultural subjects. Wang's tetralogy represents a significant contribution to visual narratology and Slovenia's literary heritage.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Huiqin Wang, picturebook analysis, cross-cultural narration, chronotope, cultural memory, Alma Karlin, Sino-Slovenian art
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: PEF - Faculty of Education
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2026
• Number of pages: Str. 11-18
• Numbering: Vol. 15, iss. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-178475
• UDC: 821
• ISSN on article: 1857-8187
• DOI: 10.58885/ijllis.v15i1.11mmb
• COBISS.SI-ID: 266463235

Copyright

Podatek o licenci CC-BY 4.0 je naveden na pristajalni strani članka (glej izvorni URL zgoraj). (Datum opombe: 28.1. 2026)

• Publication date in RUL: 28.01.2026

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Anglisticum
• Publisher: Association-Institute for English Language and American Studies, Tetovo, North Macedonia
• ISSN: 1857-8187
• COBISS.SI-ID: 114314499

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: Huiqin Wang, analiza slikanice, medkulturna pripoved, kronotop, kulturni spomin, Alma Karlin, kitajsko-slovenska umetnost