TY - BOOK ID - 74007488 TI - Hanvueng : the Goose King and the Ancestral King : an epic from Guangxi in Southern China AU - Holm, David AU - Yuanyao, Meng AU - Brill PY - 2015 SN - 9789004285613 9789004290006 9004290001 900428561X PB - Leiden ; Boston Brill DB - UniCat KW - Epic poetry, Zhuang KW - Zhuang literature. KW - Chuang literature KW - Epic poetry, Chuang KW - Zhuang epic poetry KW - Zhuang poetry KW - Guangxi Zhuangzu Zizhiqu (China) KW - Kuang-hsi Chuang tsu tzu chih chʻü (China) KW - Guansi-Chzhuanskiĭ avtonomnyĭ raĭon (China) KW - Kuang-hsi Chuang tsu tzu chih chʻü KW - Kwangsi Chuang Autonomous Region (China) KW - Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (China) KW - Guangxi Zhuangzu Zizhiqu ren min zheng fu (China) KW - Kuang-hsi (China) KW - Kwangsi (China) KW - 广西壮族自治区 (China) KW - Gvangjsih Bouxcuengh Swcigih (China) KW - Guangxi Sheng (China) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:74007488 AB - This work is an annotated edition of a ritual manuscript, written in the traditional Zhuang character script. The Hanvueng epic is a narrative in verse about murderous enmity between two royal step-brothers, recited when there is fraternal feuding, death by violence, outbreaks of smallpox, or other such disasters. The theme of enmity is an important one that resonates deeply in the Tai societies on the periphery of the Chinese empire. The narrative touches on many other aspects of life in the valley-kingdoms in the highlands of Guangxi: marriage and inheritance, match-making, slavery and social stratification, agriculture, hunting, fishing, raiding, livestock raising dye-making, wild animals and plants, and the use of ritual to put things to rights. ER -