Four masters of Chinese storytelling video collection : full-length repertoires of Yangzhou storytelling on video, 2001-2004

Collection Summary

Title	Four masters of Chinese storytelling video collection : full-length repertoires of Yangzhou storytelling on video, 2001-2004
Collection Number	AFC 2004/021
Inclusive Dates	2001-2004
Location	American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Extent (original)	3.3 linear feet (4 boxes) containing 1 monograph with 408 pages and 361 video compact discs (VCDs).
Collector	Børdahl, Vibeke
Languages	Chinese, Yangzhou dialect; English
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LCCN Permalink	LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/2005700224
Summary	The entire repertories of four master storytellers, Dai Buzhang, Fei Zhengliang (Fei Li), Gao Zaihua, and Ren Jitang (Ren Dekun) were recorded on video for the project "Large-scale Registration of Chinese Storytelling" from 2001 to 2003 in Yangzhou. In addition, a medium-length repertoire was told by Ren Dekun. Project co-leaders were Fei Li and Vibeke Børdahl, project assistant, co-editor and translator was Huang Ying, Yangzhou University; photographers were Li Xin and Chen Wei, Yangzhou. Yangzhou storytelling (Yangzhou pinghua) is oral narrative, primarily in Yangzhou dialect, performed with gestures and learned through apprenticeship with a professional master storyteller.