Within the context of globalization

Sino-African cross-cultural writing in Chinese children's literature has gradually revealed its distinctive value. Such works engage with cross-cultural encounter through the child's perspective

presenting the complex processes of cultural exchange

emotional interaction

and identity negotiation. Existing scholarship has devoted insufficient systematic attention to children's literature on Sino-African themes: the bulk of prior research focuses on the cultural identity construction of overseas Chinese writers

while the practice of Chinese domestic authors actively writing about Africa remains comparatively underexplored. This paper takes three recently published representative works—

Adventures in Africa

The Train to Kilimanjaro

and

Abul's Sun Wukong

—as its primary objects of study. It offers a rigorous academic definition of "equal gaze

" the paper's core narrative-ethical concept; examines

within the framework of Homi Bhabha's Third Space theory

how these works consciously construct national images of both China and Africa; analyzes the diverse attempts and inherent limitations of authors' alignments with the "equal gaze" narrative; and further identifies the tension between the surface harmony of the text and the deep power structures underlying the narrative. In exploring the vast possibilities of Sino-African writing

this paper aims to provide a critical and dialogic new path for cross-cultural children's literature writing in the e

ra of globalization.