Popular Songs and Ballads of Han China
by Anne Birrell
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The oral factor in Chinese literature, although critically important, has been largely neglected in the scholarship of the last generation. In this study, one of the leading specialists in classical Chinese literature introduces readers to a repertoire of seventy-seven songs and ballads of early imperial China. Each song-text is newly translated and fully annotated and explicated. Anne Birrell deals systematically with problems of the earliest sources, attribution, textual variants, meter, show more and structure. Her introductory essay provides a valuable sociohistorical context for this material. First published in 1988, this important study of the folk song has become standard reading for students of oral literature and Chinese folklore and popular culture. show lessTags
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Anne Birrell is at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.
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- Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism, Poetry
- DDC/MDS
- 895.1 — Literature & rhetoric Literatures of other languages Literatures of East and Southeast Asia Chinese
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- PL2658 .E3 .B57 — Language and Literature Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Languages of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Chinese language and literature Chinese literature Collections
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