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Dungan Folktales and Legends (Hardcover, New edition)
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Dungan Folktales and Legends (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: International Folkloristics, 16
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Dungan Folktales and Legends is a unique anthology that acquaints
English-speaking readers with the rich and captivating folk stories
of the Dungans, Chinese-speaking Muslims who fled Northwest China
for Russian Central Asia after failure of the Dungan Revolt
(1862-1877) against the Qing dynasty. The most comprehensive
collection of Dungan folk narratives, available now in English for
the first time, this volume features translations of oral
narratives collected in the former Soviet Central Asian republics
of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan in the twentieth century, and first
published in Dunganskie narodnye skazki i predaniia (1977), which
was edited by the internationally renowned Russian sinologist Boris
L. Riftin and compiled by his prominent Dungan colleagues Makhmud
A. Khasanov and Il'ias I. Iusupov. The Dungan folk narrative
tradition is a vibrant and fascinating tapestry of Chinese,
Islamic, and various Central Asian cultural elements. The present
volume is comprised of a chapter introducing the Dungan tale and
three chapters containing 78 folk stories organized in the
following categories: wonder tales and animal tales; novelistic
tales, folk anecdotes, and adventure stories; and legends,
historical tales, and narratives. Also included are appendixes, a
glossary, an index, the original notes to the texts, and
translator's notes aimed at an English-reading audience. This
volume will be of interest to general readers, as well as students
and scholars of folklore, ethnography, anthropology, comparative
literature, Chinese studies, and Central Asian studies.
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