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Tun-huang Popular Narratives

Victor H Mair

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  • 340 sidor
  • 2007
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.
  • Författare: Victor H Mair
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780521039833
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 340
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2007-07-01
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press