Anne McLaren

Oral Traditions, Ritual, Gender, and the Status of Women

Anne McLaren

Journal article  |  2023  |  Nan Nu: men, women and gender in China

This article investigates the role of gender in China's oral, ritual and performance genres with a focus on the folk culture of Ch..

The Story of Hua Guan Suo: Chantefable and Ritual Plays

Anne McLaren

Book Chapter  |  2022

This book is a comprehensive and inviting introduction to the literary forms and cultural significance of Chinese drama as both te..

Memory Making in Folk Epics of China The Intimate and the Local in Chinese Regional Culture

ANNE E MCLAREN

Book  |  2022

"This is the first book-length study in the West on the folk epics of the Han Chinese people, who are the majority population of C..

Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860-1960

Anne E McLaren

Journal article  |  2021  |  CHINA JOURNAL

Feminism, Women's Agency, and Communication in Early Twentieth-Century China: The Case of the Huang-Lu Elopement

Anne E McLaren

Journal article  |  2021  |  Twentieth-Century China

How exceptional are the Lolopo?

Anne E McLaren

Journal article  |  2020  |  HAU-JOURNAL OF ETHNOGRAPHIC THEORY

From the Heart of the Lake Booms a Mountain Song: Sense of Place in the Song-cycles of Coastal China

Anne McLaren

Book Chapter  |  2020

Narrative song traditions articulate an indelible sense of place and identity that encapsulate how communities construct and inter..

Chinese Studies in Australian Universities: A Problem of Balance

Anne McLaren

Report  |  2020

The global field of Chinese Studies has expanded greatly in line with the rise of China to become the world's second largest econo..

Slow Train to Democracy: Memoirs of Life in Shanghai, 1978 to 1979

Anne McLaren

Book  |  2020

This memoir offers a rare insight into everyday life during the first year of the reform movement that created the China of the tw..

Narrative Formation in Oral Traditions: The Song-cycles of Lake Tai

Anne McLaren

Journal article  |  2019  |  CHIME Journal of the European Foundation for Chinese Music Research

This study investigates narrative formation in the folk storysinging of China's Lake Tai region, with a focus on alternative vers..