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Meng Jiangnü brings down the Great Wall : ten versions of a Chinese legend / translation and introduction by Wilt L. Idema ; with an essay by Haiyan Lee.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- China Program Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mengjiangnü (Legendary character).
- Legends--China.
- Legends.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 295 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Tells the story of a young woman named Meng Jiang who makes a long, solitary journey to deliver winter clothes to her husband, a drafted labourer on the grandiose Great Wall construction project of the notorious First Emperor of the Qin dynasty (BCE 221-208).
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Ballads from late-imperial China
- pt. 2. Ballads collected in the countryside.
- Notes:
- "A China program book."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9780295800127
- 0295800127
- OCLC:
- 772525456
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