Asian origins of Cinderella : The Zhuang storyteller of Guangxi

dc.contributor.author	Beauchamp, Fay	eng
dc.date.issued	2010-10	eng
dc.description	Abstract Focusing on Duan Chengshi's c. 850 CE text, this paper starts with the hypothesis that Yexian's story reflects the time and place of the informant, Li Shiyuan, cited by Duan. I concentrate on Li Shiyuan's possible identity as a member of the Zhuang ethnic group in Nanning, Guangxi Province, now within the People's Republic of China near the Vietnamese border. Victor Mair's 2005 translation and footnotes stimulated my interest in Guangxi, and Katherine Kaup, who studies contemporary Zhuang politics, enabled me to interview Zhuang folklore scholars in Nanning. With some observations in Guangxi Province, but more importantly analysis of literary texts and previous scholarship, I place the Yexian story in the context of Zhuang beliefs, creativity, and history.	eng
dc.format.extent	50 pages	eng
dc.identifier.citation	Oral Tradition, 25/2 (2010): 447-496.	eng
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10355/65210
dc.language	English	eng
dc.rights	OpenAccess.	eng
dc.rights.license	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License.
dc.title	Asian origins of Cinderella : The Zhuang storyteller of Guangxi	eng
dc.type	Article	eng