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Article: Proverbs, Songs, Epic Narratives, Folktales of East Asia: Selected Texts, Parallel Analysis and Comparative Approach.(Review)
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- Asian Folklore Studies
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- June 1, 2000
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YEN PING-CHIU. Proverbs, Songs, Epic Narratives, Folktales of East Asia: Selected Texts, Parallel Analysis and Comparative Approach. New York: University Press of America, Inc., 1997.
The material for this book was mainly taken from China, Japan, Korea, and Mongolia. The first part discusses proverbs (in a very broad sense) from only this area, and demonstrates how the author's choice of subject was based on external and inner conditions. The author also divides the proverbs into two categories. One category is used for older proverbs that in most cases use analogies from different livelihoods (e.g., nomadism, hunting, fishing, and agriculture) with the aim of ...