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Chinese Folk Literature
AY2014/2015 Semester 2
This course surveys Chinese folk literature. Selected texts of different genres such as the Singing Narrative (Tanci ), Drum Songs (Guci ), Qing ballads (Zidishu), Precious Scrolls (Baojuan), Daoist poetry, story-telling (Pingshu, Huaben) folk tales, folk songs and scripts of folk performance will be sampled and examined. Themes such as historical development, orality and textual influence, the use of formulaic expressions during composition, dialectal features, audience and transmission of oral literature will be discussed.
| AUs | 3.0 AUs |
| Categories | CoreMinorsBDE |
| Not Available To All Programme With | (Admyr 2004-2010) |
| Mutually Exclusive With | HC212 |
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