Links to Chinese Storytelling and related topics

CHIME European Foundation For Chinese Music Research

CHINOPERL   Journal on Chinese Oral and Performing Literature

  2011 CHINOPERL Conference
    Beijing opera "White Snake"
        Part 1
        Part 2

The Columbia Anthology of Chinese Folk and Popular Literature
Edited by Victor H. Mair and Mark Bender

Chinese popular novel related to oral storytelling
Tales of Magistrate Bao and His Valiant Lieutenants: Selections from Sanxia wuyi
Translated by Susan Blader

Chinese storytelling
Two master storytellers and one amateur performer from Beijing, China, performed in the Goodhart Music Room in April as part of an academic tour organized by Susan Blader, Professor of Chinese at Dartmouth College. Renowned Beijing oral narrative artist Lian Liru performed stories in the tradition of the Lian School of Storytelling. She is the first female performer of the northern pingshu style, told without singing or musical accompaniment.

Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics, Rome 2001
Paper by Vibeke Bordahl: Dialect and Norm in Yangzhou Storytelling.

International Workshop on Oral Literature in Modern China, organized by Vibeke Bordahl, 29 - 31 August 1996, Copenhagen, Denmark. Report by Wilt Idema. IIAS Newsletter

Liu Jingting (1587-ca.1670), 'father of storytelling'. Account from 1634 by Zhang Dai (in Chinese)

Professional Chinese Storytelling
By Mark Bender

Stevens
The Canadian storyteller and sinologist Kate Stevens tells traditional Chinese tales in English.

Yangzhou storytelling Pi Wu The Idler (Pi Wu Lazi) is online
and you can listen to it at so.tudou.com/

Book review: Vibeke Bordahl ed., The Eternal Storyteller: Oral Literature in Modern China, Curzon 1999. File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML: Articles by Andre Levy, Nikolai Speshnev, Wilt L. Idema, Adrian Chan, Helga Werle-Burger, Boris Riftin, Susan Blader, Mark Bender, Lucie Borotova, Chen Wulou, Fei Li, Wang Xiaotang, Li Xintang, Dai Buzhang, Hui Zhaolong and others