Complex sentence: Western science, technology, and literature became fashionable, and the first pieces of literature intended solely for Chinese children were translations of Aesop's fables, Western fairy tales, and "The Arabian Nights".
Split into simpler sentences: Western science, technology, and literature became fashionable. The first pieces of literature intended solely for Chinese children were translations of Aesop's fables, Western fairy tales, and "The Arabian Nights".