A Thousand Streams Converge into the Sea,a Hundred Changes Become the Wind:On the Academic Value of Shanghai Urban Folklore History
Cai Fengming,Cheng Jie,and Bi Xuling's Shanghai Urban Folklore History takes the urban context as the starting point and the historical development as the thread,placing Shanghai folklore into the grand framework of urban society for examination,outlining the transformation of Shanghai folklore from rural-town type to modern urban type,and then to contemporary urban type,unfolding a magnificent long scroll of urban folklore history.The book has a distinct sense of folklore issues,extracting the"trendy and changeable"core dynamic characteristics of Shanghai folklore and the"citizen nature"traits of folklore practitioners,focusing on explaining the spiritual presence and collective mentality of the people.It proposes the academic concept of"changing customs"to analyze the transformation relationship between short-term"customs"and stable"folklore",as well as the inheritance relationship between traditional folklore and modern folklore.In summary,the pioneering research perspective and systematic theoretical construction make this book a milestone in the discipline of urban folklore history.
Shanghai Urban Folklore Historyurban folklorecitizen naturechange and innovationtheoretical construction
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