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Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet: Texts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English

  • Li Dechun (translator)
  • Gerald Roche (editor)
  • Mark Turin(introduction by)
Metadata
TitleLong Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet
SubtitleTexts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English
ContributorLi Dechun (translator)
Gerald Roche (editor)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0124
Landing pagehttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0124
Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
CopyrightLi Dechun (李得春, Limusishiden); Gerald Roche; Preface Mark Turin
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Publication placeCambridge, UK
Published on2017-10-30
Series
  • World Oral Literature Series vol. 8
  • ISSN Print: 2050-7933
  • ISSN Digital: 2054-362X
ISBN978-1-78374-383-4 (Paperback)
978-1-78374-384-1 (Hardback)
978-1-78374-385-8 (PDF)
978-1-80064-543-1 (HTML)
978-1-78374-439-8 (XML)
978-1-78374-386-5 (EPUB)
978-1-78374-387-2 (MOBI)
Short abstractContaining ballads of martial heroism, tales of tragic lovers and visions of the nature of the world, Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet: Texts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English is a rich repository of songs collected amongst the Mongghul of the Seven Valleys, on the northeast Tibetan Plateau in western China.
Long abstractContaining ballads of martial heroism, tales of tragic lovers and visions of the nature of the world, Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet: Texts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English is a rich repository of songs collected amongst the Mongghul of the Seven Valleys, on the northeast Tibetan Plateau in western China. These songs represent the apogee of Mongghul oral literature, and they provide valuable insights into the lives of Mongghul people—their hopes, dreams, and worries. They bear testimony to the impressive plurilingual repertoire commanded by some Mongghul singers: the original texts in Tibetan, Mongghul, and Chinese are here presented in Mongghul, Chinese, and English. The kaleidoscope of stories told in these songs include that of Marshall Qi, a chieftain from the Seven Valleys who travels to Luoyang with his Mongghul army to battle rebels; Laarimbu and Qiimunso, a pair of star-crossed lovers who take revenge from beyond the grave on the families that kept them apart; and the Crop-Planting Song and the Sheep Song, which map the physical and spiritual terrain of the Mongghul people, vividly describing the physical and cosmological world in which they exist. This collection of songs is supported by an Introduction by Gerald Roche that provides an understanding of their traditional context, and shows that these works offer insights into the practices of multilingualism in Tibet. Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet is vital reading for researchers and others working on oral literature, as well as those who study Inner Asia, Tibet, and China’s ethnic minorities. Finally, this book is of interest to linguistic anthropologists and sociolinguists, particularly those working on small-scale multilingualism and pre-colonial multilingualism.
Print length470 pages (xii + 458)
LanguageEnglish (Original)
Dimensions156 x 24 x 234 mm | 6.14" x 0.95" x 9.21" (Paperback)
156 x 25 x 234 mm | 6.14" x 1" x 9.21" (Hardback)
Weight1449g | 51.11oz (Paperback)
1841g | 64.94oz (Hardback)
Media2 illustrations
OCLC Number1167356899
LCCN2019452594
BIC
  • DS
  • DCQ
  • 2GD
BISAC
  • LCO004000
  • LIT022000
  • LIT008000
LCC
  • PL431.M67
  • L66
Keywords
  • Mongghul oral literature
  • narrative songs
  • multilingualism
  • Tibet
  • China’s ethnic minorities
  • pre-colonial multilingualism
Funding
Contents

1. The Ballad of Taipinggoor

(pp. 27–100)
  • Li Dechun
  • Gerald Roche

2. The Ballad of Marshal Qi

(pp. 101–158)
  • Li Dechun
  • Gerald Roche

3. Laarimbu and Qiimunso

(pp. 159–206)
  • Li Dechun
  • Gerald Roche

4. The Song of the Dildima Bird

(pp. 207–232)
  • Li Dechun
  • Gerald Roche

5. The Song of the Calf

(pp. 233–244)
  • Li Dechun
  • Gerald Roche

6. The Crop-Planting Song

(pp. 245–300)
  • Li Dechun
  • Gerald Roche

7. The Song of the Sheep

(pp. 301–452)
  • Gerald Roche
  • Li Dechun

Preface

(pp. ix–xii)
  • Mark Turin

Introduction: Translanguaging in Song: Orature and Plurilingualism in Northeast Tibet

(pp. 1–26)
  • Gerald Roche
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Contributors

Li Dechun

(translator)

Gerald Roche

(editor)
Discovery Early Career Research Award Fellow at University of Melbourne

Mark Turin

(introduction by)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2262-0986
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