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The
Fourth International Conference on Yi Studies
Yi studies has a history of
over a hundred years as an interdisciplinary, international
field of study. Already in the last half of the 19th century,
European scholars' research on Yi peoples such as Sani,
Axi, and Nuosu opened the wellspring of Yi Studies. During
the 1930s and 40s, Chinese ethnologists produced rich
research results dealing with the society, history, religion,
language,, and historical documents of Yi people. In the
1950s, the Historical and Social Investigations and the
research on the social ......
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Some Thoughts on Strategies of Ethnic Oral Literature Preservation in China
China has one of the richest, if not the richest holdings of traditional live, narrative performance on earth. Since the May Fourth Movement (and even earlier in some cases) and especially in the early 1950s and again since the late 1970s,......
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Singers and Storytellers in the Gesar/Geser Epic Performance Tradition:
A Brief Introduction
The epic King Gesar
has a performance tradition of over 1000 years. The epic
was originally created by Tibetan nomads on the vast Qinghai-Tibetan
Plateau. For centuries the heroic song has been transmitted
among many peoples within China, including the Mongol,
Tu, Yugur, Nahki and Purmi ethnic groups.The major themes
of the epic tradition center on the life, deeds, and merits
of the divine hero, Gesar, whose mission from heaven to
this world was to unify disparate tribesg´´
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World's Longest Epic Sung
for Thousand Years
The ancient king,
Gesar, may have been dead for a thousand years, but he
lives on in the Gesar ballad singers who rove the Qinghai-Tibetan
and the Mongolian plateaus, constantly reciting and developing
The Life of King Gesar, the world's longest epic poem.
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Sangzhub master balladeer
known to all
In 1984 when I went
to Lhasa for the Gesar Singing Party, I came across Sangzhub
whose performance lied deeply embedded in my mind. In
1985 when he went to Beijing for further trip to Chifeng,
Inner Mongolia, where he would attend the Seminar on King
Gesar, I showed him around in the city.
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Mongolian
Epic Identity:
Formulaic Approach to Janggar Epic Singing
Mongolian oral epic singing
has been a vast tradition. Being the most important genre
of folk arts, the tradition can be traced back to long
ago. Some scholars believe that the Mongolian epic emerged
in about Chinghis Khan's time.
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