Program

Research Programs: Scholarly Publications

Period of Performance

10/1/1987 - 7/31/1988

Funding Totals

$7,000.00 (approved)
$7,000.00 (awarded)


Painting and Performance: Chinese Picture Recitation, by Victor H. Mair

FAIN: RP-21082-87

University of Hawaii Press (Honolulu, HI 96822-1888)
William H. Hamilton (Project Director: April 1987 to March 1989)

To support the publication of a study of the origins and uses of the earliest Chinese vernacular narratives known as PIEN-WEN, derived from a type of oral storytelling that used picture scrolls with religious themes.