Abstract
The Song dynasty saw the development of telling historical stories in both official functions and folk gatherings, and both occasions reflect the popularization of historical knowledge not only in these occasions but also in the sociocultural environment. Artisan's storytelling performance and popular history books represent two representational forms of the oral and written products, and historical storytelling scripts thus emerged. These scripts are the results of the popularization of historical knowledge, the prosperity of popular historical books, the attitude to and the ability in vernacular Chinese during the Yuan dynasty. In this process, the style of expression of historical storytelling was gradually incorporated into popular history books. This is, the paper argues, not because of development of artistry of telling but because of the textualization in the process of writing story scripts.
First Page
61
Last Page
76
Recommended Citation
Xu, Dajun. 2019. "The Artistry in the Historical Storytelling Scripts of the Song and Yuan Dynasties." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 39, (4): pp.61-76. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol39/iss4/14
