Saving The Songs Of China's Yangtze Delta

03/14/17 • 26 min

Chinese literature expert Anne McLaren joins Ear to Asia host Clement Paligaru to discuss her research into the folk ecology of the lower Yangtze delta, including the folksongs of this fascinating region. And she explains how these vanishing oral traditions shed light into how people of a bygone era lived.

Transcript available here. More information about this and other episodes of this podcast series is found here.

An Asia Institute podcast, produced by Profactual.com.

Transcript available here. More information about this and other episodes of this podcast series is found here.

An Asia Institute podcast, produced by Profactual.com.

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