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Author : Bertha Hensman
Publisher : Chinese University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789622010987
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)
Download or read book More Hong Kong Tale-Spinners written by Bertha Hensman and published by Chinese University Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bertha Hensman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Hong Kong Tale-spinners written by Bertha Hensman and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arlene D. C. Luster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book China, Taiwan, Hong Kong written by Arlene D. C. Luster and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wilt Idema
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0892641231
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (926 download)
Download or read book A Guide to Chinese Literature written by Wilt Idema and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected for Choice's list of Outstanding Academic Books for 1997. A comprehensive overview of China's 3,000 years of literary history, from its beginnings to the present day. After an introductory section discussing the concept of literature and other features of traditional Chinese society crucial to understanding its writings, the second part is broken into five major time periods (earliest times to 100 c.e.; 100-1000; 1000-1875; 1875-1915; and 1915 to the present) corresponding to changes in book production. The development of the major literary genres is traced in each of these periods. The reference section in the cloth edition includes an annotated bibliography of more than 120 pages; the paper edition has a shorter bibliography and is intended for classroom use.
Author : Eugene Chen Eoyang
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253319586
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)
Download or read book Translating Chinese Literature written by Eugene Chen Eoyang and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enth.: Papers presented at the first International conference on the translation of Chinese literature held in Taipei, Nov. 19-21, 1990.
Author : Wilt Idema
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004482806
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Chinese Vernacular Fiction written by Wilt Idema and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-09-13 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vibeke Boerdahl
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136108505
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)
Download or read book The Eternal Storyteller written by Vibeke Boerdahl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese storytelling has survived through more than a millennium into our own time, while similar oral arts have fallen into oblivion in the West. Under the main heading of 'The Eternal Storyteller', in August 1996 the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies hosted an International Workshop on Oral Literature in Modern China. To this meeting, the first of its kind in Europe, five special guests were invited - master tellers from Yangzhou: Wang Xizotang, Li Xintang, Fei Zhengliang, Dai Buzhang and Hui Zhaolong. The volume derived from this meeting includes an introductory article written by John Miles Foley entitled 'A Comparative View on Oral Traditions'. Thereafter, a wide range of topics relating to Chinese oral literature is covered under the headings: 'Historical Lines', 'A Spectrium of Genres', 'Studies of Yangzhou and Suzhou Story- telling' and 'Performances of Yangzhou Storytelling'. However, the present volume does more than include papers derived from the meeting. It is also lavishly illustrated in word and picture from performances by the guest-storytellers. In so doing, the world of Chinese story telling is not just described and analysed - it is also brought to life.
Author : Vibeke Børdahl
Publisher : Cheng & Tsui
ISBN 13 : 9780887273568
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (735 download)
Download or read book 楊州古城與楊州評話 written by Vibeke Børdahl and published by Cheng & Tsui. This book was released on 2002 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese Storytellers takes us to the teahouses and hidden corners of Yangzhou to explore the ancient art of Chinese storytelling (shuoshu).
Author : Dan Ben Amos
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
ISBN 13 : 0827608713
Total Pages : 873 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (276 download)
Download or read book Folktales of the Jews, V. 3 (Tales from Arab Lands) written by Dan Ben Amos and published by Jewish Publication Society. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 873 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thanks to these generous donors for making the publication of the books in this series possible: Lloyd E. Cotsen; The Maurice Amado Foundation; National Endowment for the Humanities; and the National Foundation for Jewish Culture Tales from Arab Lands presents tales from North Africa, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq in the latest volume of the most important collection of Jewish folktales ever published. This is the third book in the multi-volume series in the tradition of Louis Ginzberg?s timeless classic, Legends of the Jews. The tales here and the others in this series have been selected from the Israel Folktale Archives (IFA), named in Honor of Dov Noy, at The University of Haifa, a treasure house of Jewish lore that has remained largely unavailable to the entire world until now. Since the creation of the State of Israel, the IFA has collected more than 20,000 tales from newly arrived immigrants, long-lost stories shared by their families from around the world. The tales come from the major ethno-linguistic communities of the Jewish world and are representative of a wide variety of subjects and motifs, especially rich in Jewish content and context. Each of the tales is accompanied by in-depth commentary that explains the tale's cultural, historical, and literary background and its similarity to other tales in the IFA collection, and extensive scholarly notes. There is also an introduction that describes the culture and its folk narrative tradition, a world map of the areas covered, illustrations, biographies of the collectors and narrators, tale type and motif indexes, a subject index, and a comprehensive bibliography. Until the establishment of the IFA, we had had only limited access to the wide range of Jewish folk narratives. Even in Israel, the gathering place of the most wide-ranging cross-section of world Jewry, these folktales have remained largely unknown. Many of the communities no longer exist as cohesive societies in their representative lands; the Holocaust, migration, and changes in living styles have made the continuation of these tales impossible. This series is a monument to a rich but vanishing oral tradition. This series is a monument to a rich but vanishing oral tradition.
Author : East-West Center. Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Select List of Recent Publications written by East-West Center. Library and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maria Jaschok
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 9781856491266
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Women and Chinese Patriarchy written by Maria Jaschok and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection reveals many forms of servitude that Chinese women have endured, and the avenues of escape open to some of them. The authors are anthropologists, historians and sociologists, but the book is enriched also by contributions from the participants - a social worker, a mui tsai, and a colonial civil servant. The chapters are based on original documentary or oral research and personal experience, and, throughout the book, the voices of the women, their owners and their missionary rescuers can be clearly heard.
Author : Victor H. Mair
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231526733
Total Pages : 661 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book The Columbia Anthology of Chinese Folk and Popular Literature written by Victor H. Mair and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Columbia Anthology of Chinese Folk and Popular Literature, two of the world's leading sinologists, Victor H. Mair and Mark Bender, capture the breadth of China's oral-based literary heritage. This collection presents works drawn from the large body of oral literature of many of China's recognized ethnic groups including the Han, Yi, Miao, Tu, Daur, Tibetan, Uyghur, and Kazak and the selections include a variety of genres. Chapters cover folk stories, songs, rituals, and drama, as well as epic traditions and professional storytelling, and feature both familiar and little-known texts, from the story of the woman warrior Hua Mulan to the love stories of urban storytellers in the Yangtze delta, the shaman rituals of the Manchu, and a trickster tale of the Daur people from the forests of the northeast. The Cannibal Grandmother of the Yi and other strange creatures and characters unsettle accepted notions of Chinese fable and literary form. Readers are introduced to antiphonal songs of the Zhuang and the Dong, who live among the fantastic limestone hills of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region; work and matchmaking songs of the mountain-dwelling She of Fujian province; and saltwater songs of the Cantonese-speaking boat people of Hong Kong. The editors feature the Mongolian epic poems of Geser Khan and Jangar; the sad tale of the Qeo family girl, from the Tu people of Gansu and Qinghai provinces; and local plays known as "rice sprouts" from Hebei province. These fascinating juxtapositions invite comparisons among cultures, styles, and genres, and expert translations preserve the individual character of each thrillingly imaginative work.
Author : Mark Bender
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252028212
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (282 download)
Download or read book Plum and Bamboo written by Mark Bender and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the cities of the Yangzi River delta region of China, audiences sip tea in story houses while storytellers speak and sing stories accompanied by stringed instruments. The stories unfold week after week, usually revolving around a love intrigue. Plum and Bamboo is a thorough introduction to this enchanting oral narrative tradition that still flourishes in Shanghai and in Suzhou, an ancient city known as the "city of gardens."Storytelling in China was once a major art form that rivaled opera and other performance genres. The Suzhou chantefable of today is a rich, local tradition and one of the most viable storytelling traditions in the world, with hundreds of active storytellers in the Yangzi delta region. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and an appreciation of the Chinese art, Mark Bender utilizes a folkloristic approach to provide an overview of the tradition, focusing on the contextualized performance of narrative. In addition to supplying historical and contextual background, the book examines how oral territory is opened and explored in performance.Plum and Bamboo also features an in-depth exploration of a performance transcript of the Meng Lijun story and interlinear commentary by the storytellers; four appendixes including outlines of traditional stories, some of which are synopsized here for the first time in English; and a romanized transcript of a portion of a performance in Suzhou dialect. "A truly important work, a major contribution to a field virtually unstudied in the West and poorly studied in China until very recently." -- Susan Blader, associate professor of Chinese at Dartmouth College
Author : J. Gottschall
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230615597
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Literature, Science, and a New Humanities written by J. Gottschall and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-09-29 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary studies are at a tipping point. ." There is broad agreement that the discipline is in "crisis" - that it is aimless, that its intellectual energy is spent, that all of the trends are bad, and that fundamental change will be required to set things right. But there is little agreement on what those changes should be, and no one can predict which way things will ultimately tip. Literature, Science, and a New Humanities represents a bold new response to the crisis in academic literary studies. This book presents a total challenge to dominant paradigms of literary analysis and offers a sweeping critique of those paradigms, and sketches outlines of a new paradigm inspired by scientific theories, methods, and attitudes.
Author : James Hayes
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888139754
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (881 download)
Download or read book The Great Difference written by James Hayes and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Stewart Lockhart called it "the great difference". Returned from an inspection tour of the newly leased extension to Hong Kong territory in August 1898, Lockhart, a senior Hong Kong colonial official, had used this phrase to describe the gulf between the New Territories and its people and the existing British colony of Hong Kong and its inhabitants. In this volume, James Hayes argues that this "the great difference" led the colonial government to administer the New Territories and its people differently from the old urban area from the outset, resulting in repercussions that affect present-day Hong Kong. The study covers the whole period of the Lease, with all its crowded events and dramatic changes, as they affected the native inhabitants and their relationship with the government and, over time, the many times larger new urban population. James Hayes (PhD Lond; HonDLitt, HK) is a scholar of the Hong Kong region and its people. He worked in the New Territories for almost half his thirty-two years of government service, and was Regional Secretary in charge of district administration there in 1985-87. His publications include Friends and Teachers: Hong Kong and Its People 1953-87 (Hong Kong University Press, 1996) and South China Village Culture (2001).
Author : Vibeke Børdahl
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780700704361
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Oral Tradition of Yangzhou Storytelling written by Vibeke Børdahl and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text examines the traditional oral narrative of the Yangzi delta.
Author : Theresa Bane
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786488948
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Demons in World Religions and Cultures written by Theresa Bane and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exhaustive volume catalogs nearly three thousand demons in the mythologies and lore of virtually every ancient society and most religions. From Aamon, the demon of life and reproduction with the head of a serpent and the body of a wolf in Christian demonology, to Zu, the half-man, half-bird personification of the southern wind and thunder clouds in Sumero-Akkadian mythology, entries offer descriptions of each demon's origins, appearance and cultural significance. Also included are descriptions of the demonic and diabolical members making up the hierarchy of Hell and the numerous species of demons that, according to various folklores, mythologies, and religions, populate the earth and plague mankind. Very thoroughly indexed.
