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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Journal of the North-China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
Author: Oral Traditions in Contemporary China
Author: Juwen ZhangPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1793645140
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
In Oral Traditions in Contemporary China: Healing a Nation, Juwen Zhang provides a systematic survey of such oral traditions as folk and fairy tales, proverbs, ballads, and folksongs that are vibrantly practiced today. Zhang establishes a theoretical framework for understanding how Chinese culture has continued for thousands of years with vitality and validity, core and arbitrary identity markers, and folkloric identity. This framework, which describes a cultural self-healing mechanism, is equally applicable to the exploration of other traditions and cultures in the world. Through topics from Chinese Cinderella to the Grimms of China, from proverbs like “older ginger is spicier” to the life-views held by the Chinese, and from mountain songs and ballads to the musical instruments like the clay-vessel-flute, the author weaves these oral traditions across time and space into a mesmerizing intellectual journey. Focusing on contemporary practice, this book serves as a bridge between Chinese and international folklore scholarship and other related disciplines as well. Those interested in Chinese culture in general and Chinese folklore, literature, and oral tradition in particular will certainly delight in perusing this book.
Academy sketches, ed. by H. Blackburn
Author: Henry George BlackburnPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Scraps from My Sabretasche
Author: George Carter StentPublisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Gilda Aurifabrorum
Author: William ChaffersPublisher:
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Category : Goldsmiths
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art
Author: The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, Art, and Finance
Author: Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1893
Author: Royal Asiatic society of Great Britain and Ireland, London. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Books on China in the Library of the Essex Institute
Author: Essex Institute. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
Author: Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. North China Branch, ShanghaiPublisher:
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
Contains list of members.