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Regional literature and the transmission of culture : Chinese drum ballads, 1800-1937
- Title
- Regional literature and the transmission of culture : Chinese drum ballads, 1800-1937 / Margaret B. Wan.
- Author
- Wan, Margaret B.
- Publication
- Cambridge (Massachusetts) : Harvard University Asia Center, 2020.
- ©2020
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Details
- Description
- xxii, 434 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Provides a richly textured picture of cultural transmission in China during the Qing and early Republican eras. Drum ballad texts (guci) evoke one of the most popular performance traditions of their day, opening up surprising new perspectives on vital topics in Chinese literature and history"--Provided by publisher.
- Series Statement
- Harvard East Asian monographs; 426
- Uniform Title
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 426.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Drum ballads as regional literature -- Audiences and reading practices: the eye and the ear -- Imagining region: space in the ballads -- Court case ballads: popular ideals of justice -- Legends, media and the transmission of ideas -- Drum ballads in Shanghai: the shift to national culture.
- ISBN
- 9780674241183
- 0674241185
- LCCN
- 2019005478
- OCLC
- on1090280047
- 1090280047
- SCSB-14593046
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries