The Oral Tradition of Yangzhou Storytelling (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 73)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: RoutledgeCurzon
Published: April 11, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 495
ISBN-13: 9780700704361
Subjects: Cultural studies; Historical & comparative linguistics; Literary studies: general; Phonetics, phonology, prosody (speech); Semantics (meaning); Storytelling; Oral And Folk Literature; Literary Criticism; Sociology; Chinese; Literature: Classics; China; General; Folklore & Mythology; Social Science / Ethnic Studies
First sentence: From the time of the Song dynasty (960-1279) we have historical sources testifying not only to the existence, but also to the popularity of professional 'storytelling' (shuohua) in China.