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Chinese Popular Culture and Ming Chantefables

Anne McLaren
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      In 1967 a body of Chinese texts was discovered in a tomb outside Shanghai. It contained a set of unique examples of an oral genre favoured by unlearned classes in the late imperial period (15th century), best called 'chantefables', appearing at the beginning of a profound historical shift which resulted in a broadening of the uses of writing and printing in China. These texts are now generally seen to occupy an important place in the development of Chinese literature as a whole, and of Chinese vernacular literature in particular.In the first monographic treatment of all the chantefable corpus in English the author, by examination from a more anthropological view, points out that these 'oral traditional texts' can only be appreciated in the festival, ritual and performative context of their derivation and reception. Topics dealt with in this important work include the popular interpretation of Confucian orthodoxies, the literary recycling of the oral tradition, and the influence of chantefables on the development of Chinese vernacular fiction.The author offers interesting comparative perspective on the different social consequences of print technology in China and the West.Illustrations of ten chantefable woodblocks are included.
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Anne McLaren EAN: 9789004109988 COUNTRY: Netherlands PAGES: WEIGHT: 699 g HEIGHT: 235 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Brill DATE PUBLISHED: 1998-03-30 CITY: GENRE: ARCHITECTURE / Interior Design / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography WIDTH: 155 cm SPINE:

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      China, Chinese, Performance art, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Cultural studies, Anthropology

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      Anne E. Mclaren, Ph.D. in Chinese liturature, Australian National University, is Senior Lecturer and Head, Chinese program, at La Trobe University, Melbourne. She has published extensively in the field of Ming popular narratives, including The Chinese Femme-fatale (University of Sydney, 1994).
      In 1967 a body of Chinese texts was discovered in a tomb outside Shanghai. It contained a set of unique examples of an oral genre favoured by unlearned classes in the late imperial period (15th century), best called 'chantefables', appearing at the beginning of a profound historical shift which resulted in a broadening of the uses of writing and printing in China. These texts are now generally seen to occupy an important place in the development of Chinese literature as a whole, and of Chinese vernacular literature in particular.In the first monographic treatment of all the chantefable corpus in English the author, by examination from a more anthropological view, points out that these 'oral traditional texts' can only be appreciated in the festival, ritual and performative context of their derivation and reception. Topics dealt with in this important work include the popular interpretation of Confucian orthodoxies, the literary recycling of the oral tradition, and the influence of chantefables on the development of Chinese vernacular fiction.The author offers interesting comparative perspective on the different social consequences of print technology in China and the West.Illustrations of ten chantefable woodblocks are included.
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Anne McLaren EAN: 9789004109988 COUNTRY: Netherlands PAGES: WEIGHT: 699 g HEIGHT: 235 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Brill DATE PUBLISHED: 1998-03-30 CITY: GENRE: ARCHITECTURE / Interior Design / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography WIDTH: 155 cm SPINE:

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      China, Chinese, Performance art, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Cultural studies, Anthropology

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      Anne E. Mclaren, Ph.D. in Chinese liturature, Australian National University, is Senior Lecturer and Head, Chinese program, at La Trobe University, Melbourne. She has published extensively in the field of Ming popular narratives, including The Chinese Femme-fatale (University of Sydney, 1994).

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