Suwenxue congkan
Collected work of folk literature ( Chinese 俗 文學 Pin , Pinyin Sūwénxué cóngkān ), English sub-title Folk Literature: Materials in the Collection of the Institute of History and Philology , is a collection of so far 500 volumes with photomechanical reproductions of Chinese performative literature, published from 2002 to 2006 published by Shin Wen Feng in Taipei . Another hundred volumes are in preparation. It is one of the most important Chinese collective works ( cóngshū叢書), with a selection of texts from the so-called folk literature from the 18th century (plays, narrative texts, folk and bank songs, joke stories, etc.) from the holdings of the Fù Sīnián library of Institute of History and Philology at the Taiwanese Academia Sinica .
meaning
Sūwénxué cóngkān is one of the most important sources for research into recent Chinese performative literature. The compilation contains performative texts from the Qiānlóng period (1736–1795). These librettos were published in China until the 1930s and were freely available. The quality of the prints is very different - splendid editions alternate with obvious mass-produced goods. The materials were compiled by the historian Fù Sīnián 傅斯年 (1896–1950), the founding director of the Institute for History and Philology at the Academia Sinica.
A database listing all the individual titles in the collection is currently being created at the Faculty for East Asian Studies at the Ruhr University in Bochum .
Content
The collection includes around 8,600 titles in more than 4,500 fascicles. The printed anthology is divided into Generalia (including reproductions of entire specialist journals, sheet music and material for instrumental lessons) and a main part with photomechanical reproductions of performative texts. These are structured according to genre and the historical periods in which the plot takes place.
The opera texts shown belong to different regional genres, including Gāoqiāng- 高腔, Kūnqǔ- 昆曲, Peking (Jīngjù 京劇), Ānhuī- (Huījù 徽 劇), Cháozhōu (Cháojù 潮劇) and Cantonese opera (Yuèjù 粵劇).
There are also shadow plays and tánhuáng彈簧, a form of prosimetric, non-scenic storytelling, as well as ballads and folk song-like texts. The announced volumes 501 to 600 should, in addition to an overall index, primarily contain non-scenic texts (so-called qǔyì曲藝).
swell
- Sūwénxué cóngkān俗 文學 叢刊 / Folk Literature: Materials in the Collection of the Institute of History and Philology . 2002-2006. Taipei: Shin Wen Feng.