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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sg-smu-ink.soss_research-29762020-04-06T07:42:04Z Folktales and Reality: The Social Construction of Race in Chinese Tales Kong, Lily Goh, Elaine 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. 1995-09-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf 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 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection School of Social Sciences eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Fairy tales Racism Folk literature Social constructs Folk culture Epistemology Civilization Asian Studies Human Geography Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies |
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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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