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Chinese popular culture and Ming chantefables / by Anne E. McLaren.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McLaren, Anne E. (Anne Elizabeth)
- Series:
- Sinica Leidensia ISSN 0169-9563 ; v. 41.
- Sinica Leidensia, ISSN 0169-9563 ; v. 41
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Folk drama, Chinese--History and criticism.
- Folk drama, Chinese.
- Chinese drama--Ming dynasty, 1368-1644--History and criticism.
- Chinese drama.
- Popular culture--China.
- Popular culture.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 340 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 1998.
- Contents:
- I The Discovery of the Chantefables at Jiading County 15
- II Chantefables, Publishers and Readers 32
- III Festivals, Masquerades and Chantefable Performance 77
- IV Kinship and Performance: Patriarch Kai 124
- V Orthodoxy and Popular Interpretation: Stock Material in Chantefables 154
- VI The Literary Recycling of the Oral Tradition 192
- VII Recalling the Past: the Folk Understanding of History 228
- VIII Storyteller Rhetoric in Chantefables and Chantefables 261
- List of Chantefables 292.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [296]-323) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9004109986
- OCLC:
- 38432204
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