Introduction to Chinese Popular Literature

Author: Wu Tongrui
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Publish Date: 2000-05-01
Features: Folk literature is a term encompassing popular literature, folk literature, mass literature, and oral literature. It is the mother of all literary works. In China, ancient folk 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, and Ming-Qing Dynasty's chapter novels, folk songs, and jokes, as well as the new grain opera during the New Democratic Cultural Revolution and epic poems 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.