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Four Masters of Chinese
Storytelling
Full-length Repertoires of Yangzhou Storytelling on Video
edited by Vibeke
Børdahl, Fei Li & Huang Ying
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Offering access to and bringing alive
unique materials on the Chinese storytelling traditions, this volume has
its origins in a project which recorded on film 360 hours of performances
by the four masters of Yangzhou storytelling Dai Buzhang, Fei Zhengliang,
Gao Zaihua and Ren Jitang. Sets of these films have been deposited (in
Washington D.C., Taipei, Beijing and Copenhagen) to give future scholars
access to the unique material.
The purpose of Four Masters is
twofold: first, as a guide to the collections; second, with its
introductory chapters, teller autobiographies, performances, catalogue
entries and film material, it stands as an independent and valuable
contribution to research in Asian oral traditions. With all text appearing
in both English and Chinese and with its subject matter brought alive by a
wealth of photographs plus a 60-minute film on VCD, this volume promises
to be a classic work in its field. Useful for students of Chinese culture
by serving as a bilingual guide to the great masterworks of the Chinese
novel (Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, and Journey to the
West).
Book Contents
Yangzhou Storytelling in Oral Transmission: Introduction (Vibeke
Børdahl) • Performance technique and schools of Yangzhou storytelling (Fei
Li) • By word of tradition (Vibeke Børdahl) • Four Masters and
Their Repertoires: Dai school of Journey to the West - Transmitting
‘Journey to the West’ of the Dai school (Dai Buzhang) • Dai Buzhang
performs Journey to the West in one hundred days of storytelling
(catalogue entry for Dai Buzhang • Wu School of Three Kingdoms - A life
devoted to the art (Fei Zhengliang) • Fei Zhengliang performs the First
Part of Three Kingdoms in fifty days of storytelling (catalogue entry for
Fei Zhengliang) • Kang School of Three Kingdoms - How I studied the art
of storytelling (Gao Zaihua) • Gao Zaihua performs the Central Part of
Three Kingdoms in one hundred and ten days of storytelling (catalogue
entry for Gao Zaihua) • Wang School of Water Margin - Along the road of
the art (Ren Jitang) • Ren Jitang performs the Wu Song Saga from Water
Margin in eighty-eight days of storytelling (catalogue entry for Ren
Jitang) • Emperor Qian Long Goes South • Ren Dekun performs Emperor
Qian Long Goes South in twelve days of storytelling (catalogue entry for
Ren Dekun) • Epilogue
VCD Contents
Yangzhou storytelling and the old town of Yangzhou (20 mins) • Dai
Buzhang in performance (10 mins) • Fei Zhengliang in performance (10
mins • Gao Zaihua in performance (10 mins) • Ren Jitang in performance
(10 mins).
Published by NIAS Press
Published 2004, 371 pp., illustrated, with 60 min. film on VCD
ISBN 87 91114 64 0, hardback & VCD, £48.00
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