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Author:   Ziying You
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Weight:   0.576kg
ISBN:  

9780253046352

ISBN 10:   0253046351
Pages:   276
Publication Date:   11 February 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments A Note on Romanization, Chinese Characters, and English Translation Introduction 1. Background: Situating Local Beliefs about Ehuang and Nüying in Hongtong, Shanxi 2. Incense Is Kept Burning: The Role of Folk Literati in Continuing and Representing Local Traditions 3. Contested Myth, History, and Beliefs: Worshipping Yao and Shun at Village Temples in Hongtong 4. Tradition Ecology: Debating and Remaking Ehuang and Nüying's Conflict Legends by Folk Literati 5. Reproducing Tradition: Folk Literati, Sociocultural Differentiation, and Their Interaction with Other Social Actors 6. Making Intangible Cultural Heritage: Folklore, Tradition, and Power Conclusion Appendix: In Commemoration of the Reconstruction of the Shun Temple Bibliography Index

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By focusing on folk literati and cultural traditions in Hongtong, Ziying You engages with a cultural dialogue that spans the local and global, the East and the West, academic and folk, and the past and the present. It allows readers to obtain a deep understanding of the interplay of individual agency and social institutions in processing tradition and making heritage in China and beyond. -- Xiaohong Chen * Journal of Folklore Research *

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Ziying You is Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at the College of Wooster. She is editor (with Lijun Zhang) of Chinese Folklore Studies Today: Discourse and Practice and of a special issue for the journal Asian Ethnology, titled Intangible Cultural Heritage in Asia: Traditions in Transition.

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