{"product_id":"dungan-folktales-and-legends-9781433187612","title":"Dungan Folktales and Legends","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDungan Folktales and Legends\u003c\/i\u003e is a unique anthology that acquaints English-speaking readers with the rich and captivating folk stories of the Dungans, Chinese-speaking Muslims who fled Northwest China for Russian Central Asia after failure of the Dungan Revolt (18621877) against the Qing dynasty. The most comprehensive collection of Dungan folk narratives, available now in English for the first time, this volume features translations of oral narratives collected in the former Soviet Central Asian republics of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan in the twentieth century, and first published in \u003ci\u003eDunganskie narodnye skazki i predaniia\u003c\/i\u003e (1977), which was edited by the internationally renowned Russian sinologist Boris L. Riftin and compiled by his prominent Dungan colleagues Makhmud A. Khasanov and Il'ias I. Iusupov. The Dungan folk narrative tradition is a vibrant and fascinating tapestry of Chinese, Islamic, and various Central Asian cultural elements.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe present volume is comp\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Fictional World of the Dungan Tale – Wonder Tales and Animal Tales – Novelistic Tales, Folk Anecdotes, and Adventure Stories – Legends, Historical Tales, and Narratives – Index.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039685050711,"sku":"9781433187612","price":74.07,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781433187612.jpg?v=1750944482","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dungan-folktales-and-legends-9781433187612","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}