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Tun-Huang Popular Narratives

Tun-Huang Popular Narratives

Mair, Victor H.
Hannan, Patrick
Victor H., Mair

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institu

Literary CriticismMythology & Folklore

ISBN10: 0521247616
ISBN13: 9780521247610
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 10 1983
Pages: 340
Weight: 1.44
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Tun-huang Popular Narratives presents authoritative translations of four vernacular Chinese stories, taken from fragmentary texts usually referred to as pien-wen or 'transformation texts'. Dating from the late T'ang (618-907) and Five Dynasties (907-959) periods, the texts were discovered early last century in a cave at Tun-huang, in Chinese Central Asia. However, written down in an early colloquial language by semi-literate individuals and posing formidable philological problems, the texts have not been studied critically before. Nevertheless they represent the only surviving primary evidence of a widespread and flourishing world of popular entertainment during these centuries. The tales deal with both religious (mostly Buddhist) and secular themes, and make exciting and vivid reading.

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