Juwen Zhang, "Oral Traditions in Contemporary China: Healing a Nation" (Lexington Books, 2022)
New Books in East Asian Studies
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The Role of Folklore in Folkloric Studies
Folloric identity is the way to understand how people maintain their individual and group identity through shared folklor practice. It's a contradictory or it's paradoxical by saying that let's fight against the racist stereotypes while we use the notion, very notion of race. So that's why I argue that the folkloric identity could be a concept to counter the racist paradigm in studying traditions.
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