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Judge Bao And The Rule Of Law: Eight Ballad-Stories From The Period 1250-1450
Author(s): Idema Wilt Lukas (Author)
- Publisher: World Scientific Publishing
- Publication Date: 23 Feb. 2010
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 456 pages
- ISBN-10: 981430445X
- ISBN-13: 9789814304450
Book Description
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Review
Teachers will find in these stories attractive material useful for courses on Chinese popular culture. Scholars of the history of Chinese popular literature will appreciate the author’s insights into likely borrowings from antecedent texts and parallels with other fictional or dramatic traditions. — Asian Ethnology “Asian Ethnology”
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