Shan'ge, the 'Mountain Songs'

Know about the book -

Shan'ge, the 'Mountain Songs' is written by Yasushi OKI and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004189009 (ISBN 10) and 9789004189003 (ISBN 13).

Mountain Songs is a collection of folk songs edited by the famous writer Feng Menglong (1574-1646). By this innovative work - mainly written in the Suzhou dialect - he aimed to revitalize poetry through the power of popular songs. This collection is very significant to the understanding of the characters of the mobile society of Jiangnan and the vitality of its intellectual world. The songs deal with the lives of common people: women, often prostitutes, boatmen, peasants, hunters, fishers and paddlers. Their spirit is far from the orthodox moral intents that Zhu Xi advocated for interpreting the Shijing, and their language is often vulgar and full of crude expressions or salacious double meanings and contains allusions to sexual and erotic behaviour.