Western Han: A Yangzhou Storyteller's Script - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 8776942147 ISBN 13 : 9788776942144

Editeur : NIAS Press, 2017

Synopsis

This mammoth study is a major contribution to the study of Chinese literature, making available to scholars a rare storyteller's script from the late Qing period. The script is published in its complete form, both in facsimile and transcription, with an English translation also made. Its publication is of high importance not only to preserve knowledge about one of the famous oral traditions of China, but also as a unique documentation of the interplay between orality and literacy in Chinese storytelling. The book is also the first translation into a European language of this popular semi-historical narrative. Moreover, this storyteller's version is unique and entertaining. The work is an ideal classroom book for students studying Chinese history, literature, oral literature, storytelling, etc.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Vibeke Børdahl is a senior research fellow at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen University. Regarded as the world authority on Yangzhou storytelling, she has published widely and contributed greatly to the study of the more general field of traditional Chinese storytelling and related written texts. Liangyan Ge is Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Notre Dame. Seen as being at the forefront of current research on Chinese storytelling, his research interests include premodern Chinese vernacular fiction and the interplay between the oral and the written in Chinese popular culture and literature.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: NIAS Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 8776942147
• ISBN 13: 9788776942144
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 720
• Éditeur: Børdahl Vibeke, Ge Liangyan
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible