THE CULTURAL HERITAGE OF THE LOWER YANGZI DELTA: THE WU FOLK EPICS

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..

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

AE McLaren

2017-01-01

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

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..

Interpreting Sinitic Heritage Ethnography and Identity in China and Southeast Asia Introduction

Anne E McLaren

2017-01-01

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

Recreating "Traditional" Folk Epics in Contemporary China The Politics of Textual Transmission

Anne E McLaren, Emily Yu 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