Memory Making in Folk Epics of China: The Intimate and the Local in Chinese Regional Culture
Anne E McLaren, "Memory Making in Folk Epics of China: The Intimate and the Local in Chinese Regional Culture"
English | ISBN: 1621966453 | 2022 | 346 pages | PDF | 5 MB
English | ISBN: 1621966453 | 2022 | 346 pages | PDF | 5 MB
In pre-contemporary China, folk epics performed at village level helped to construct a sense of regional as opposed to national identity. This is the first book-length study in the West on the folk epics of the Han Chinese people, who are the majority population of China. These folk epics provide an unparalleled resource for understanding the importance of "the local" in Chinese culture, especially how rice-growing populations perceived their environment and relational world.
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