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  1. Hanvueng
    the Goose King and the Ancestral King ; an epic from Guangxi in Southern China
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Brill, Leiden

    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 half-brothers, recited in cases of fraternal feuding,... more

    Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky
    MK 3 13 Epi. Hol. 1
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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 half-brothers, recited in cases of fraternal feuding, death by violence, and outbreaks of smallpox. 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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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9789004285613; 900428561X
    RVK Categories: EG 9666
    Series: Zhuang Traditional Texts
    Subjects: Epic poetry, Zhuang; Zhuang literature
    Scope: XV, 641 S., Tab., 50 Tafeln, 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references and index