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 |
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Format: | text |
Language: | English |
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1995
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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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