Wu Song Fights the Tiger: The Interaction of Oral and Written Traditions in the Chinese Novel, Drama and Storytelling Social History 10 November 2009)

10 November 2009)

Chang Xiangqun

Glover is visiting assistant professor of anthropology

He is also director of the Bristol-Mekong Project

Khatharya Um places these accounts in conversation with studies of comparative revolutions

Wu Song Fights the Tiger: The Interaction of Oral and Written Traditions in the Chinese Novel, Drama and Storytelling Social History 10 November 2009)By Vibeke Brdahl 2013, 512 pp, 18x26 cm. The focus of Chinese literary studies has long been on the written word even though Chinese fiction and drama have strong oral roots and have been shaped by an interplay between oral and written traditions. The culmination of decades working on this issueand using as its lens the story about how the legendary hero Wu Song killed a tiger with his bare handsthis volume explores Chinese oral professional