The Columbia Anthology of Chinese Folk and Popular Literature

Edited by Victor H. Mair and Mark Bender

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Paper, 800 pages, 1 map
ISBN: 978-0-231-15313-3
$37.50 / £26.00

April, 2011
Cloth, 800 pages, 1 map
ISBN: 978-0-231-15312-6
$105.00 / £72.50

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chinese Units of Measure

“I Sit Here and Sing for You”: The Oral Literature of China

1. Folk Stories and Other Spoken Traditions

2. Folk Song Traditions

3. Folk Ritual

4. The Epic Traditions

5. Folk Drama

6. Professional Storytelling Traditions of the North and South

Further Readings

Contributors and Translators

Related Subjects

• Asian Literature
• Fiction

Series

• Translations from the Asian Classics

About the Author

Victor H. Mair is professor of Chinese language and literature at the University of Pennsylvania and editor of The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature and The Columbia History of Chinese Literature.Mark Bender is associate professor of East Asian languages and literatures at The Ohio State University and author of Plum and Bamboo: China's Suzhou Chantefable Tradition and Butterfly Mother: Miao (Hmong) Creation Epics from Guizhou, China.

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