| Product Summary | | Format: Hardcover | | ISBN: 9780521247610 | | Publisher: Cambridge University Press | | Publish Date: 4/10/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 31169900 | | Item#: R3LT2S | | Dimensions (in Inches) 9.5H x 6.5L x 0.75T | | Pages: 340 |
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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 this 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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