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1、PopularSongsandBalladsofHanChinaField,Stephen.ChinaReviewInternational,Volume7,Number2,Fall2000,pp.396-398(Review)PublishedbyUniversityofHawai'iPressDOI:10.1353/cri.2000.0077Foradditionalinformationaboutthisarticlehttp://muse.jhu.edu/journals/cri/summary/v007/7.2field.htmlAccessPr
2、ovidedbyChineseAcademyofSocialSciencesat08/15/1112:05PMGMT396ChinaReviewInternational:Vol.7,No.2,Fall2000AnneBirrell.PopularSongsandBalladsofHanChina.Honolulu:UniversityofHawai‘iPress,1993.xiv,226pp.Paperback$12.95,isbn0–8248–1548–3.TheUniversityofHawai‘iPressistobecommendedforrei
3、ssuingAnneBirrell’sacclaimedtranslationandanalysisofHandynastyyuefuverse.Originallypub-lishedinGreatBritainin1988,thisworkstillremainsthebeststudyinEnglishontheanonymousHansongs.Thebookopenswithanessaythatoutlineswhatisknownaboutthetradition,includinganaccountoftheinstitutioncalle
4、dtheMu-sicBureau,adiscussionofthesourcesofthevarioussongtextsandthetraditionthatcollectedandcategorizedthem,andveryinformativetreatmentsoftheoral-ityandmusicalaspectsofthesongs.Thenfollowelevenchaptersnamedforthe-maticcategoriesderivedbyBirrellherself:hymns,fables,theelixiroflife,
5、carpediem,burialsongs,politicalbroadsides,antiwarballads,domesticdrama,home-wardthoughts,lovesongs,andtheidealhomeandperfectmarriage.Thesechap-tersincludetranslationsandexplicationsofatotalofseventy-sevensongs.ThereissueofPopularSongsandBalladsofHanChinainpaperbackwillen-ableteach
6、erstoassignthetextinclassesonChinesepoetryintranslation,aswellascoursesonfolkloreandethnomusicology.Itsvalueincomparativecoursesisparticularlyowingtotheauthor’sembraceofthecomparativetechnique.Heruseoftheterms“ballad”and“fable”isanattempttoplacetheChineseoraltraditionalongsideitsW
7、esterncounterpart.Andherwillingnesstodiscusstheperformativeaspectsofindividualsongssetsherstudyapartfrommostothersandincreasesitsappealtomusicologists.Ontheotherhand,thebookislessusefulforthespecialistbecauseitlackstheChinesetextsofthepoemsunderdiscussion.Anothercapitulationtotheg
8、en-eralreaderisthecitationofChine
