Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The discovery of folk literature
  • The meaning of folk literature
  • The "going to the people" movement
  • The romantic view of rural life
  • Nationalism
  • Foreign influence
  • Predecessors
  • 2. Pioneers
  • Liu Fu
  • Zhou Zuoren
  • Gu Jiegang
  • Geyao zhoukan and Minsu Zhoukan
  • The method of collecting
  • 3. Folksongs
  • The new literature movement
  • Dialect literature
  • Songs of love
  • Songs of the suffering of women
  • Songs of life
  • Obscene folksongs
  • Folksong collecting and politics
  • 4. Legends
  • Gushi and Chuanshuo
  • The scholar-rascal : Xu Wenchang
  • Meng Jiang nü
  • Legends, history, and values of the common people
  • 5. Children's literature
  • Children's literature and children's issues
  • Criticizing the past
  • Inspiration from the West
  • The significance of children's literature
  • The merits and failings of the fairy tale
  • Teaching and morality
  • Nursery rhymes and children's education
  • 6. Proverbs
  • The study of folk sayings
  • Proverbs and maxims
  • Proverbs and literature
  • Peasant proverbs
  • Normative proverbs
  • Regional proverbs
  • Intellectuals and folk sayings
  • 7. Intellectuals and the folk
  • Social and government pressure
  • Two clarifications
  • The theory of two literatures
  • Two views of folk literature
  • Anti-traditionalism and anti-Confucianism
  • Folklorist populism.