New Book Announcement: “Memory Making in Folk Epics of China: The Intimate and the Local in Chinese Regional Culture” by Anne E McLaren

Memory Making in Folk Epics of China: The Intimate and the Local in Chinese Regional Culture, Anne E McLaren (Cambria, October 2022)
Memory Making in Folk Epics of China: The Intimate and the Local in Chinese Regional Culture, Anne E McLaren (Cambria, October 2022)

In pre-contemporary China, folk epics performed at village level helped to construct a sense of regional as opposed to national identity. This is the first book-length study in the West on the folk epics of the Han Chinese people, who are the majority population of China. These folk epics provide an unparalleled resource for understanding the importance of “the local” in Chinese culture, especially how rice-growing populations perceived their environment and relational world.

 

Memory Making in Folk Epics of China: The Intimate and the Local in Chinese Regional Culture
by Anne E McLaren
Cambria Press (October 2022)