Tun-Huang Popular Narratives (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions) - Image 1

£49.85

Cambridge University Press Tun-Huang Popular Narratives (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions)

Name: Tun-Huang Popular Narratives (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions)
Brand: Cambridge University Press
Price: 49.85 GBP
Availability: InStock

Folklore

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

£50 today · previous high £50 · all-time low £49

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 54 days • 54 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 54 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £50 (46 days, 85.2%)

Price range: £49 - £50

Price levels: 2 different prices over 54 days

Description

Tun-huang Popular Narratives presents authoritative translations of four vernacular Chinese stories, taken from fragmentary texts usually referred to as pien-wen or 'transformation texts'. Dating from the late T'ang (618–907) and Five Dynasties (907–959) periods, the texts were discovered early last century in a cave at Tun-huang, in Chinese Central Asia. However, written down in an early colloquial language by semi-literate individuals and posing formidable philological problems, the texts have not been studied critically before. Nevertheless they represent the only surviving primary evidence of a widespread and flourishing world of popular entertainment during these centuries. The tales deal with both religious (mostly Buddhist) and secular themes, and make exciting and vivid reading.

Product Specifications

Brand: Cambridge University Press
Format: paperback
ASIN: 0521039835
Category: Books > Subjects > Mind, Body & Spirit > Mythology > Folklore
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 21 August 2008
Listed Since: 10 May 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

Cambridge University Press Tun-Huang Popular Narratives (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions)

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Eighteen Lectures on Dunhuang: 5 (Brill's Humanities in China Library, 5)

Yungang: Art, History, Archaeology, Liturgy

Religious Experience and Lay Society in T'ang China: A Reading of Tai Fu's 'Kuang-i chi' (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions)

Literati Storytelling in Late Medieval China

Confucian Literature of the Tang and Song Dynasties: An Annotated Anthology 唐宋儒家詩文譯注

Popular Culture in the Ancient World

The Cambridge Companion to Popular Fiction (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

Narrative and Understanding Persons (Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements)

The Practice of Reading in England

Cross-Cultural Collaboration in Popular Music: Practice-Based Research (Elements in Twenty-First Century Music Practice)

Performing Enlightenment: Buddhism and Theater in Early Modern China (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series)

King Hu's Kung Fu Cinematic Art: An Interdisciplinary Discourse

China Beyond the Binary: Race, Gender, and the Use of Story

Popular Puppet Theatre in Europe

Analyzing Popular Music

Teaching English to Chinese Students: Voices from UK Higher Education: 57 (Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics)

Puer Tea: Ancient Caravans and Urban Chic (Culture, Place, and Nature)

Corpus-based Translation and Interpreting Studies in Chinese Contexts: Present and Future (Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting)

Identity Reflections: Pilgrimages to Mount Tai in Late Imperial China (Harvard East Asian Monographs): 244

Innovation in Chinese Medicine: 3 (Needham Research Institute Studies, Series Number 3)

Cheap Print and the People: European Perspectives on Popular Literature

Liu Tsung-yuan Intellectual Change (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions)

Cosmology and Political Culture in Early China (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions)

Rebellion, Popular Protest and the Social Order in Early Modern England (Past and Present Publications)