The Cultural Heritage of the Lower Yangzi Delta: The Wu Folk Epics

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

Anne McLaren

2023-01-01

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

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

ANNE E MCLAREN

2022-01-01

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

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

Anne McLaren

2020-07-01

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

Western Han: A Yangzhou Storyteller’s Script

Anne E McLaren

2018-01-02

From Folk Opera to the Printed Book in Early Twentieth-Century China

AE McLaren

2017-03-01

This study examines a genre of printed song booklets on romantic themes that were extremely popular in urban coastal China in the ..

Editor’s introduction: Interpreting Sinitic heritage ethnography and identity in China and Southeast Asia

AE McLaren

2017-01-01

This special issue seeks to explore shifting dimensions of implicit, adopted, or imposed Chinese ethnicity with regard to contempo..

Gossip, scandal, and the wanton woman in Chinese song-cycles

AE McLaren

2017-01-01

In Wanton Women in Late-Imperial Chinese Literature, the essay contributors explore how from the late Ming onward images of sexual..

Recreating “traditional” folk epics in contemporary China: The politics of textual transmission

AE McLaren, EY Zhang

2017-01-01

In the pre-contemporary period, farming communities living on the shores of Lake Tai in China’s lower Yangzi Delta sang lengthy so..

Lu Xun: The Art of Catching a Ghost

A MCLAREN

2016-10-01