Hanvueng: The Goose King and the Ancestral King

An Epic from Guangxi in Southern China

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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This work is an annotated edition of a ritual manuscript, written in the traditional Zhuang character script. The Hanvueng epic is a narrative in verse about murderous enmity between two royal step-brothers, recited when there is fraternal feuding, death by violence, outbreaks of smallpox, or other such disasters. The theme of enmity is an important one that resonates deeply in the Tai societies on the periphery of the Chinese empire. The narrative touches on many other aspects of life in the valley-kingdoms in the highlands of Guangxi: marriage and inheritance, match-making, slavery and social stratification, agriculture, hunting, fishing, raiding, livestock raising dye-making, wild animals and plants, and the use of ritual to put things to rights.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-04-09
Mått155 x 235 x 658 mm
Vikt1 120 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieZhuang Traditional Texts
Antal sidor642
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004285613
ÖversättareDavid Holm, Meng Yuanyao

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David Holm, D.Phil. (1980) in Chinese, University of Oxford, is Professor in the Department of Ethnology at National Chengchi University. He has published extensively on the traditional language and culture of the Zhuang, a Tai-speaking people indigenous to Southern China.Meng Yuanyao, PhD (2002) University of Melbourne, is Professor in the Department of Minority Languages in the Guangxi University for Nationalities. He has published The Names and Classification of Common Plants in Zhuang (in English, 2006) and numerous books on Zhuang song texts and traditional culture.

Hanvueng: The Goose King and the Ancestral King, An Epic from Guangxi in Southern China (Brill, 2015) by David Holm has been shortlisted for the the 2018 Medal for Excellence in Translation, a major national award that recognises outstanding achievement in translation and the vital role of translators in Australian culture and scholarly discourse.(https://www.humanities.org.au/2018/09/12/shortlist-announced-for-medal-for-excellence-in-translation/)