Painting and Performance Chinese Picture Recitation and Its Indian Genesis
| Author/creator | Mair, Victor H. Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press |
| Description | 302 p. ill 16.000 x 023.000 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Summary | Annotation Mair (Chinese, U. of Pennsylvania) traces the global development over a thousand years of a genre of popular Buddhist folk literature from China known as pie-wen, pointing out its origins in India as a form of oral storytelling using paintings as an aid, and showing how that form has influenced performance and literary traditions in India, Indonesia, Japan, Central Asia, the Near East, Italy, France, and Germany. Numerous bandw illustrations (60 p.), extensive bibliography (40 p.). Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9780824819156 |
| ISBN | 0824819152 (Trade Paper) Out of Print |
| Standard identifier# | 9780824819156 |
| Stock number | 00027181 |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |