Preservation and Distortion: the Recording, Editing and Publishing of Yangzhou Storytelling

Abstract

Abstract: Affected by the Chinese Communist Party's policies on literature and art and the aesthetics of written literature, during the recording, editing and publishing Yangzhou storytelling, the editors revised or deleted the undesirable or negative content including the parts that did not comply with the social ideology. Meanwhile, the editors tended to follow the style of written literature to normalize the language of Yangzhou storytelling. On one hand, the recording and publishing work saved some repertoires of Yangzhou storytelling, and let more people know and enjoy Yangzhou storytelling. It also promoted the development of academic research on Yangzhou storytelling. On the other hand, the work also had some flaws. It undermined some of the characteristics of storytelling as oral literature, and it was not good for the further development of academic research. We should adopt more diverse and scientific methods to record, edit and publish Yangzhou storytelling, to preserve storytelling repertoires, and to provide a better foundation for the further study of Yangzhou storytelling.

Key words: Yangzhou storytelling, record, editing and publication, policy on literature and art, orality

Wang Huarong. Preservation and Distortion: the Recording, Editing and Publishing of Yangzhou Storytelling[J]. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2017, 37(4): 119-132.

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