{"product_id":"chinese-popular-culture-and-ming-chantefables-9789004109988","title":"Chinese Popular Culture and Ming Chantefables","description":"In 1967 a body of Chinese texts was discovered in a tomb outside Shanghai. It contained a set of unique examples of an oral genre favoured by \u003ci\u003eunlearned classes\u003c\/i\u003e in the late imperial period (15th century), best called 'chantefables', appearing at the beginning of a profound historical shift which resulted in a broadening of the uses of writing and printing in China. These texts are now generally seen to occupy an important place in the development of Chinese literature as a whole, and of Chinese vernacular literature in particular.\u003cbr\u003eIn the first monographic treatment of \u003ci\u003eall\u003c\/i\u003e the chantefable corpus in English the author, by examination from a more anthropological view, points out that these 'oral traditional texts' can only be appreciated in the festival, ritual and performative context of their derivation and reception. Topics dealt with in this important work include the popular interpretation of Confucian orthodoxies, the literary recycling of the oral tradition, and the influence of chantefables on the development of Chinese vernacular fiction.\u003cbr\u003eThe author offers interesting comparative perspective on the different social consequences of print technology in China and the West.\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations of ten chantefable woodblocks are included.","brand":"Anne McLaren","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48271311175931,"sku":"9789004109988","price":223.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_f1acf19c-9642-4e96-b4bd-f399845538ae.jpg?v=1770983043","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/chinese-popular-culture-and-ming-chantefables-9789004109988","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}