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.
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