Tun-huang Popular Narratives
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- Author: Victor H. Mair, University of Pennsylvania
- Date Published: November 1983
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521247610
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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.
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- Date Published: November 1983
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521247610
- length: 340 pages
- dimensions: 242 x 161 x 24 mm
- weight: 0.621kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Preface
Introduction
1. Śāriputra
2. Maudgalyāyana
3. Wu Tzu-hsü
4. Chang I-ch'ao
Usages and symbols
Notes on the texts
References
Index.
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