Folktales and Reality: The Social Construction of Race in Chinese Tales

Folktales and Reality: The Social Construction of Race in Chinese Tales

This paper illustrates how folktales are a repository of primary material for the geographer. Using the example of The Strange Tales of Liaozhai, we discuss how these tales are not purely fictive constructs but constitute instead fictive, historical and projected realities. As an example of the valu...

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Main Authors: Kong, Lily, Goh, Elaine
Format: text
Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 1995
Subjects:
Fairy tales
Racism
Folk literature
Social constructs
Folk culture
Epistemology
Civilization
Asian Studies
Human Geography
Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies
Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1719
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/2976/viewcontent/Folktales_Reality_1995_av.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English
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Summary:This paper illustrates how folktales are a repository of primary material for the geographer. Using the example of The Strange Tales of Liaozhai, we discuss how these tales are not purely fictive constructs but constitute instead fictive, historical and projected realities. As an example of the value of such analysis, we discuss Chinese constructions of race as revealed in the tales.

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