Tun-huang Popular Narratives, Paperback / softback Book

Tun-huang Popular Narratives Paperback / softback

Part of the Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions series

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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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