Juwen Zhang, "Oral Traditions in Contemporary China: Healing a Nation" (Lexington Books, 2022)
New Books in East Asian Studies
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The Importance of Folktales in Chinese Culture Studies
Part one of a two-part series on Chinese culture and tradition. The second part will look at folktales, proverbs and ballads. Author says these three genres represent different areas in the so-called Eastern Western cultural exchange or conflicts of ideas. It seems like an extension of this sort of May 4th era idea of using Chinese as the base for bringing from the West whatever you can use.
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