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Tun-huang Popular Narratives

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Tun-huang Popular Narratives

Tun-huang Popular Narratives

Victor H. Mair, University of Pennsylvania
January 1984
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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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    January 1984
    Hardback
    9780521247610
    340 pages
    242 × 161 × 24 mm
    0.621kg
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    Contents

    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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