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Mingshui Cai is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Northern Iowa. His areas of research interest are multicultural literature, children's literature and reader response to literature.

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Cai, M. Images of Chinese and Chinese Americans mirrored in picture books. Child Lit Educ 25, 169–191 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02355394

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