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TUN-HUANG POPULAR NARRATIVES
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| By: |
Victor H. Mair |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521039835 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521039833 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
23 July, 2007 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature & Institutions |
| Pages: |
340 |
| Description: |
The tales deal with both religious (mostly Buddhist) and secular themes, and make exciting and vivid reading. |
| Synopsis: |
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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UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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