Tun Huang Popular Narratives
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Tun Huang Popular Narratives
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Author : Victor H. Mair
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1983-11-10
Tun Huang Popular Narratives written by Victor H. Mair and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-11-10 with History categories.
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.
The Origins Of The Tun Huang Popular Narratives And Their Influences On Later Vernacular Literature
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Author : Victor H. Mair
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
The Origins Of The Tun Huang Popular Narratives And Their Influences On Later Vernacular Literature written by Victor H. Mair and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with Chinese fiction categories.
The purpose of this thesis is to understand as much as possible of the history of the popular Chinese literary genre called pien-wen. These texts date from the eighth through the tenth centuries and are important because they represent the earliest surviving examples of extended vernacular narrative known in China. The thesis begins with a brief discussion of the discovery of the pien-wen manuscripts at Tun-huang in the northwestern province of Kansu. The author then turns to an intensive philological study of the term pien-wen and thereby justifies his translation of it as "transformation text." Having completed this analysis, he is in a position to delineate the corpus of pien-wen. In the process, he distinguishes it from other types of popular literary texts discovered at Tun-huang such as sutra lectures (chiang- ching-wen). The author then moves on to the significant questions of who wrote the pien-wen and why. He marshals evidence that most of the copyists were lay students studying at Buddhist monasteries in Tun-huang. The author proceeds to show that pien-wen were the written descendants of a type of oral performance called chuan-pien ("turning transformation [scrolls]"). This was a folk entertainment in which a storyteller used a picture scroll to illustrate his or her tale. The sudden and mysterious disappearance of pien-wen during the first half of the eleventh century is then explained. The last major section of the thesis deals with the effects of pien-wen on later Chinese popular literature, chief among these being the adoption of the prosimetric form and the use of vernacular language. The thesis concludes with an assessment of the current state of research on pien-wen.
Ballads And Stories From Tun Huang
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Author : The Arthur Waley Estate
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-11-12
Ballads And Stories From Tun Huang written by The Arthur Waley Estate and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-12 with Literary Collections categories.
First published in 1960. Over a century ago the Chinese discovered in a sealed-up cave in the west of China a collection of manuscripts dating from the fifth century to the end of the tenth. These included many specimens of popular literature of a kind that was not previously known to exist. Although the find was made long ago, only two or three of these pieces had been translated before. Arthur Waley here translates, whole or as extracts, twenty-six pieces, making an invaluable addition to world literature.
Tang Transformation Texts
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Author : Victor H. Mair
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-10-26
Tang Transformation Texts written by Victor H. Mair and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-26 with History categories.
This is the most comprehensive study of pien-wen (“transformation texts” i.e., tales of metamorphosis) in any language since the manuscripts were discovered at the beginning of the 20th century in a remote cave complex in northwest China. They are the earliest written vernacular narratives in China and are thus extremely important in the history of Chinese language and literature. Numerous scholarly controversies have surrounded the study of the texts in the last three quarters of a century; this volume seeks to resolve some of them—the extent, origins, and formal characteristics of the texts, the meaning of pien wen, the identity of the authors who composed these popular narratives and the scribes who copied them, the relationship of the texts to oral performance, and the reasons for the apparently sudden demise of the genre around the beginning of the Sung dynasty. This is a multi-disciplinary study that integrates findings from religious, literary, linguistic, sociological, and historical materials, carried out with intellectual rigor. It includes an extensive bibliography of relevant sources in many languages.
Ballads And Stories From Tun Huang
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Author : Arthur Waley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960
Ballads And Stories From Tun Huang written by Arthur Waley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with Chinese literature categories.
The Shorter Columbia Anthology Of Traditional Chinese Literature
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Author : Victor H. Mair
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2001-01-03
The Shorter Columbia Anthology Of Traditional Chinese Literature written by Victor H. Mair and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
With its fresh translations by newer voices in the field, its broad scope, and its flowing style, this anthology places the immense riches of Chinese literature within easy reach. Ranging from the beginnings to 1919, this abridged version of The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature retains all the characteristics of the original. In putting together these selections Victor H. Mair interprets "literature" very broadly to include not just literary fiction, poetry, and drama, but folk and popular literature, lyrics and arias, elegies and rhapsodies, biographies, autobiographies and memoirs, letters, criticism and theory, and travelogues and jokes.
The Columbia History Of Chinese Literature
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Author : Victor H. Mair
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2010-02-22
The Columbia History Of Chinese Literature written by Victor H. Mair and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
Comprehensive yet portable, this account of the development of Chinese literature from the very beginning up to the present brings the riches of this august literary tradition into focus for the general reader. Organized chronologically with thematic chapters interspersed, the fifty-five original chapters by leading specialists cover all genres and periods of poetry, prose, fiction, and drama, with a special focus on such subjects as popular culture, the impact of religion upon literature, the role of women, and relationships with non-Sinitic languages and peoples.
Stories Of Old China
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
Stories Of Old China written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Short stories, Chinese categories.
Tun Huang
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Author : 井上靖
language : en
Publisher: Kodansha
Release Date : 1978
Tun Huang written by 井上靖 and has been published by Kodansha this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with China categories.
'Early in the 20th century an incredible hoard of Buddhist sutras and other manuscripts was discovered by an itinerant monk in 'Tun-huang.' Archaeologists recovered thousands of documents that had been concealed in the Thousand Buddha Caves for 900 years.
The Five Colored Clouds Of Mount Wutai Poems From Dunhuang
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Author : Mary Anne Cartelli
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2012-12-07
The Five Colored Clouds Of Mount Wutai Poems From Dunhuang written by Mary Anne Cartelli and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-07 with Poetry categories.
In The Five-Colored Clouds of Mount Wutai: Poems from Dunhuang, Mary Anne Cartelli introduces a significant corpus of Chinese Buddhist poems from the Dunhuang manuscripts celebrating Mount Wutai. They offer important literary evidence for the transformation of the mountain into the earthly paradise of the bodhisattva Mañju?r? by the Tang dynasty.????