The story of Mulian rescuing his mother’s soul from hell has evolved as a narrative over several centuries in China, especially in the baojuan (precious scrolls) genre. This genre, a prosimetric narrative in vernacular language, first appeared around the fourteenth century and endures as a living tradition. In exploring the evolution of the Mulian story, Rostislav Berezkin illuminates changes in the literary and religious characteristics of the genre. He also examines material from other forms of Chinese literature and from modern performances of baojuan, tracing their transformation from tools of Buddhist proselytizing to sectarian propaganda to folk ritualized storytelling. Ultimately, he reveals the special features of baojuan as a type of performance literature that had its foundations in multiple literary traditions.
Rostislav Berezkin
Many Faces of Mulian [EPUB ebook]
The Precious Scrolls of Late Imperial China
Many Faces of Mulian [EPUB ebook]
The Precious Scrolls of Late Imperial China
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语言 英语 ● 格式 EPUB ● 网页 272 ● ISBN 9780295742533 ● 文件大小 11.5 MB ● 出版者 University of Washington Press ● 市 Seattle ● 国家 US ● 发布时间 2017 ● 下载 24 个月 ● 货币 EUR ● ID 6453407 ● 复制保护 Adobe DRM
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