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HJAS, Prism, JFR, 2020
These are new articles/reviews published in 2021
The Nuosu Book of Origins: A Creation Epic from Southwest China, 2019
This is a link to open access copy of The Nuosu Book of Origins, translated by Mark Bender and Ak... more This is a link to open access copy of The Nuosu Book of Origins, translated by Mark Bender and Aku Wuwu with Jjivot Zopqu
In a series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China, edited by Stevan Harrell
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The Nuosu Book of Origins: A Creation Epic from Southwest China, 2019
Narrates the creation of the sky, Earth, landscapes, flora, fauna, several stages of humans; gene... more Narrates the creation of the sky, Earth, landscapes, flora, fauna, several stages of humans; genealogy of Nuosu clans,; migration accounts; contains a substantial introduction and supporting material
The Borderlands of Asia is a project involving 49 poets from North East India, Myanmar, Southwest... more The Borderlands of Asia is a project involving 49 poets from North East India, Myanmar, Southwest China, Inner Mongolia, and Mongolia writing on themes of cultural and environmental change in the present era. The link will take you to the Cambria press site. The Gold e-version is a flexible format on many devices with several options..
Tri-lingual (Hmong/Miao, Han Chinese, English) master-text of creation epic songs of Hmong/Miao e... more Tri-lingual (Hmong/Miao, Han Chinese, English) master-text of creation epic songs of Hmong/Miao ethnic group from Southeast Guizhou province, China. Introductions and afterword by the various collaborators. 711 pages. ISBN: 978-7-5412-1915-3 (This is a more complete, multi-lingual version of the epic songs presented in Bender 2006, under the title Butterfly Mother: Miao/Hmong Creation Epics from Guizhou, China, published by Hackett Publishing, and based on Chinese version edited by Ma Xueliang and Jin Dan. Now an octogenarian, Jin Dan/Jenb Dangk has worked on the epic project since the 1950s. His story is included in an afterword in the 2012 version. His children, Wu Yiwen and Wu Yifang, contributed greatly to this latest version of the epic songs. NOTE: See sample text from the front matter below.
edited by victor mair and mark bender -- 800 page volume of translations of Chinese folk literatu... more edited by victor mair and mark bender -- 800 page volume of translations of Chinese folk literature and related written works; multi-ethnic collection
Papers by mark bender
Asian folklore studies, 1998
Chinese Literature Today, 2016
In a 2007 article entitled "Folktale, North East India and a tale-type index," Mrinal Medhi state... more In a 2007 article entitled "Folktale, North East India and a tale-type index," Mrinal Medhi states that: Although NorthEast India has been referred to, with justification, as the "folklorist's paradise" because of the presence of an almost bewildering cultural and folkloristic variety with a huge stock of folklore materials-both Pratibha Mandal, An Approach to Cultural Mapping in NorthEast India in Respect to Tribal Tales Kolkata: The Asiatic Society, 2009. 332 pages; maps; color photos. Hardcover, US$75.00; No iSbn. South Asia reviewS | 149 verbal and nonverbal-however, till date, no full-length study has been undertaken to classify, list, index, and catalogue these.
Religions of China in Practice, 1996
Journal of American Folklore, 2001
Choice Reviews Online, 2004
Plum and Bamboo China's Suzhou Chantefable Tradition Mark Bender In the cities of the Yangzi... more Plum and Bamboo China's Suzhou Chantefable Tradition Mark Bender In the cities of the Yangzi delta region of China, audiences sip tea in story houses while story-tellers speak and sing stories accompanied by stringed instruments. The stories unfold week after week, usually ...
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Asian Folklore Studies, 2001
CHINOPERL, 2014
View related articles View Crossmark data ''Miaozu'' 苗族 ethnic group in China. Outside of China t... more View related articles View Crossmark data ''Miaozu'' 苗族 ethnic group in China. Outside of China the term ''Hmong'' is often the preferred ethnonym. However, in the translation of another Miao epic recently published in China, the term ''Hmong'' was chosen by the editors as the English translation of the term ''Miao'' (see Wu Yiwen 吳一文 and Jin Dan 今旦, eds., Hxak Hlieb/Miaozu shishi 苗族史詩/Hmong Oral Epics,
HJAS, Prism, JFR, 2020
These are new articles/reviews published in 2021
The Nuosu Book of Origins: A Creation Epic from Southwest China, 2019
This is a link to open access copy of The Nuosu Book of Origins, translated by Mark Bender and Ak... more This is a link to open access copy of The Nuosu Book of Origins, translated by Mark Bender and Aku Wuwu with Jjivot Zopqu
In a series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China, edited by Stevan Harrell
please share
The Nuosu Book of Origins: A Creation Epic from Southwest China, 2019
Narrates the creation of the sky, Earth, landscapes, flora, fauna, several stages of humans; gene... more Narrates the creation of the sky, Earth, landscapes, flora, fauna, several stages of humans; genealogy of Nuosu clans,; migration accounts; contains a substantial introduction and supporting material
The Borderlands of Asia is a project involving 49 poets from North East India, Myanmar, Southwest... more The Borderlands of Asia is a project involving 49 poets from North East India, Myanmar, Southwest China, Inner Mongolia, and Mongolia writing on themes of cultural and environmental change in the present era. The link will take you to the Cambria press site. The Gold e-version is a flexible format on many devices with several options..
Tri-lingual (Hmong/Miao, Han Chinese, English) master-text of creation epic songs of Hmong/Miao e... more Tri-lingual (Hmong/Miao, Han Chinese, English) master-text of creation epic songs of Hmong/Miao ethnic group from Southeast Guizhou province, China. Introductions and afterword by the various collaborators. 711 pages. ISBN: 978-7-5412-1915-3 (This is a more complete, multi-lingual version of the epic songs presented in Bender 2006, under the title Butterfly Mother: Miao/Hmong Creation Epics from Guizhou, China, published by Hackett Publishing, and based on Chinese version edited by Ma Xueliang and Jin Dan. Now an octogenarian, Jin Dan/Jenb Dangk has worked on the epic project since the 1950s. His story is included in an afterword in the 2012 version. His children, Wu Yiwen and Wu Yifang, contributed greatly to this latest version of the epic songs. NOTE: See sample text from the front matter below.
edited by victor mair and mark bender -- 800 page volume of translations of Chinese folk literatu... more edited by victor mair and mark bender -- 800 page volume of translations of Chinese folk literature and related written works; multi-ethnic collection
Asian folklore studies, 1998
Chinese Literature Today, 2016
In a 2007 article entitled "Folktale, North East India and a tale-type index," Mrinal Medhi state... more In a 2007 article entitled "Folktale, North East India and a tale-type index," Mrinal Medhi states that: Although NorthEast India has been referred to, with justification, as the "folklorist's paradise" because of the presence of an almost bewildering cultural and folkloristic variety with a huge stock of folklore materials-both Pratibha Mandal, An Approach to Cultural Mapping in NorthEast India in Respect to Tribal Tales Kolkata: The Asiatic Society, 2009. 332 pages; maps; color photos. Hardcover, US$75.00; No iSbn. South Asia reviewS | 149 verbal and nonverbal-however, till date, no full-length study has been undertaken to classify, list, index, and catalogue these.
Religions of China in Practice, 1996
Journal of American Folklore, 2001
Choice Reviews Online, 2004
Plum and Bamboo China's Suzhou Chantefable Tradition Mark Bender In the cities of the Yangzi... more Plum and Bamboo China's Suzhou Chantefable Tradition Mark Bender In the cities of the Yangzi delta region of China, audiences sip tea in story houses while story-tellers speak and sing stories accompanied by stringed instruments. The stories unfold week after week, usually ...
[
Oxford Bibliographies Online Datasets
Asian Folklore Studies, 2001
CHINOPERL, 2014
View related articles View Crossmark data ''Miaozu'' 苗族 ethnic group in China. Outside of China t... more View related articles View Crossmark data ''Miaozu'' 苗族 ethnic group in China. Outside of China the term ''Hmong'' is often the preferred ethnonym. However, in the translation of another Miao epic recently published in China, the term ''Hmong'' was chosen by the editors as the English translation of the term ''Miao'' (see Wu Yiwen 吳一文 and Jin Dan 今旦, eds., Hxak Hlieb/Miaozu shishi 苗族史詩/Hmong Oral Epics,
Asian Folklore Studies, 1998
... Later, however, the "lyre" was interpreted as a Chinese sanxian banjo used in tanci... more ... Later, however, the "lyre" was interpreted as a Chinese sanxian banjo used in tanci performances. Another pen name is Xia Shi, which he used in co-author-ing several tanci works with ... This collection, though issued in a very limited press run, will be of great value to any ...
The cultures of North East India are already facing tremendous challenges from education and mode... more The cultures of North East India are already facing tremendous challenges from education and modernization. In the evolution of such cultures and the identities that they embody, the loss of distinctive identity markers does not bode well for the tribes of the region. If the trend is allowed to continue in an indiscriminate and mindless manner, globalization will create a market in which Naga, Khasi or Mizo communities will become mere brand names and commodity markers stripped of all human significance and which will definitely mutate the ethnic and symbolic identities of a proud people. Globalization in this sense will eventually reduce identity to anonymity. (“Identity” 7)
Oral Tradition, 1998
Suzhou tanci, or Suzhou chantefable, is a style of Chinese professional storytelling that combine... more Suzhou tanci, or Suzhou chantefable, is a style of Chinese professional storytelling that combines singing, instrumental music, and a complex mixture of narrative registers and dialogue.1 Popular in towns and cities in Wu-dialect-speaking regions of the prosperous lower Yangzi (Yang- ...
Asian Folklore Studies, 1997
... Victor Mair, John Miles Foley, Frank Stewart, John Balaban, Peter Knecht, Kevin Stuart, Chan ... more ... Victor Mair, John Miles Foley, Frank Stewart, John Balaban, Peter Knecht, Kevin Stuart, Chan Park, Shelley Quinn, Huang Jianming, Wang Jichao, Chao Gejin, Bamo Qubumo, Luo Qingchun, Wu Xiao-dong, Luo Danyang, Kong Yanjun, Deng Erlong, and Weng Wenzhong. ...
Just as it is difficult to imagine capturing all the genres, subgenres and sub-subgenres of music... more Just as it is difficult to imagine capturing all the genres, subgenres and sub-subgenres of music being listened to today, so, too, is it impossible to capture all the diversity among contemporary poetry. Yet the heterogeneity within Chinese poetry emanates not only from recent fragmentation of literary tastes (as exemplified by the split between the schools of upper- and lower-body writing), and the regional and dialectal differences among Han poets, but also the new voices of contemporary writers arising from within the ancient literary (oral and written) traditions of China's officially recognized ethnic minorities. In his essay “Cry of the Silver Pheasant,” Mark Bender, a sinologist specializing in traditional Han (Chinese) and ethnic minority performance-oriented literature, explores the incredibly diverse and lively poetry world(s) thriving in the ethnic minority communities of southwest China and beyond. Bender points out that Yunnan Province alone has approximately twenty-five official ethnic groups, including the Yi, Wa, Hani, Dai, Jingpo, and Zhuang, among others, and he reveals the diverse poetry being written within these groups today by highlighting the work of poets from different ethnic groups. He offers an extended exploration of the poetry and poetics of one group in particular—the Liangshan School of Nuosu Yi poets based in Sichuan.
American Anthropologist
It is also possible that your web browser is not configured or not able to display style sheets. ... more It is also possible that your web browser is not configured or not able to display style sheets. In this case, although the visual presentation will be degraded, the site should continue to be functional. We recommend using the latest version of Microsoft or Mozilla web browser to ...
Asian Ethnology, Vol. 72, 2013
Life in a Kam Village is a work of auto-ethnography that concerns the Kam (Gaem) people of Guizho... more Life in a Kam Village is a work of auto-ethnography that concerns the Kam (Gaem) people of Guizhou and neighboring provinces, a people officially known in China as the Dong ethnic group (Dongzu 侗族). The author and the translator collaborated on an earlier work (Geary et al. 2003) which is a more general overview of Kam culture in south China and along with Rossi and Lau's 1991 photo-rich work is one of the few studies in English on the Kam/Dong people. One of Ou's goals in the present book is to present a more nuanced "warts and all" portrait of a local Kam culture than was possible in the former text.
Field report on a visit to the "King of Yalu" epic field station in Mashan, Guizhou to investigat... more Field report on a visit to the "King of Yalu" epic field station in Mashan, Guizhou to investigate the "King of Yalu" (Yalu wang) epic tradition in the summer of 2013. Discusses a continuum of "mitigated" and "unmitigated" ritual performances in simulated and typical contexts.
Mark Bender. 2015. Slinking Between Realms: Musk Deer as Prey in Yi Oral Literature in Gerald Roc... more Mark Bender. 2015. Slinking Between Realms: Musk Deer as Prey in Yi Oral Literature in Gerald Roche, Keith Dede, Fernanda Pirie, and Benedict Copps (eds) Asian Highlands Perspectives 37 Centering the Local, A Festschrift for Dr. Charles Kevin Stuart on the Occasion of his Sixtieth Birthday, 99-121.
This paper concerns the representation of various species of musk deer in the folk literature and lore of the Yi ethnic group of southwest China. The Yi are one of the largest of China's fifty-five ethnic minority groups, numbering close to seven million. Most Yi live in mountain environments of Yunnan Province, southern Sichuan and western Guizhou provinces, with a few small communities in the western part of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Prefecture. There are around eighty sub-groups of the Yi, ranging in size from over a million, to only a few thousand. While the dominant group in Southern Sichuan province is the Nuosu (numbering around two million), many sub-groups live within the broken uplands of Yunnan,
including the Nisupo, Lipo, Lolopo, and Azhe of the central and
southern regions of the province.
The Nuosu Book of Origins: A Creation Epic from Southwest China, 2019
The Nuosu Book of Origins: A Creation Epic from Southwest China. A key ritual text of the Nuosu s... more The Nuosu Book of Origins: A Creation Epic from Southwest China.
A key ritual text of the Nuosu sub-group of the Yi ethnic groups of southwest China. Creation of sky, Earth, landscape, flora, fauna, early humans, present-day humans; migrations; genealogy; substantial introduction, photos, Northern Yi romanization, etc.