Introduction to Chinese Popular Literature

Author: Wu Tongrui et al.
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Publish Date: 1997-01-01
Features: Folk literature is a term encompassing popular literature, folk literature, mass literature, and oral literature, and is considered the mother of all literary works. In China, ancient songs and myths, pre-Qin fables, Han Dynasty's Yuefu folk songs and Jin Dynasty's supernatural tales, Tang Dynasty's legends, Bianwen, Song Dynasty's storytelling, Nanxi, Zuguqiao, Yuan Dynasty's zaju, Ming and Qing Dynasty's chapter novels, folk songs, and jokes, the new grain opera during the New Democratic Cultural Revolution, as well as epics of ethnic minorities, all fall under the category of folk literature. This book, co-authored by experts and scholars from Peking University and other institutions, is the only comprehensive theoretical work in decades that systematically reflects the creation and research achievements of folk literature.