Chinese literature expert Anne McLaren joins Ear to Asia host Clement Paligaru to discuss her research into the folk ecology of the lower Yangtze delta, including the folksongs of this fascinating region. And she explains how these vanishing oral traditions shed light into how people of a bygone era lived.

An Asia Institute podcast, produced by http://profactual.com

Transcript:
http://arts.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/2298982/Anne_McLaren_transcript_2017.pdf

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Saving the songs of China's Yangtze delta

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Saving the songs of China's Yangtze delta

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