Little White Duck: A Childhood in China
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 First edition cover | |
| Author | Na Liu |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Andrés Vera Martínez |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Memoir, Graphic novel |
| Publisher | Graphic Universe |
Publication date | October 1, 2012 |
| Pages | 108 |
| ISBN | 9780761365877 |
Little White Duck: A Childhood in China is a 2012 non-fiction graphic novel written by Na Liu and illustrated by her husband, Andrés Vera Martínez.[1] It discusses Na Liu's childhood in China during the 1970s and 1980s.[2]
Na Liu, who grew up in Wuhan,[3] is an oncologist and hematologist.[4] Her husband is from Texas.[2]
Ryan Holmberg stated in an article for Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art that Little White Duck is "primarily a book designed to sensitize American children today to the poverty a distant, now-wealthy country experienced only a generation ago."[5] Holmberg stated that therefore the Communist ideology present in China at the time is not the primary theme of the book.[5]