Interview: Anne McLaren on the Lower Yangtze’s Unique Cultural Heritage

For the Ear to Asia podcast, Anne McLaren, author of Memory Making in Folk Epics of China: The Intimate and the Local in Chinese Regional Culture, discusses the unique traditional cultures and epic folk songs of the lower Yangtze region. In the interview, McLaren explains how the region’s unique oral tradition sheds light on how people in the past lived. Listen to the podcast here.

Memory Making in Folk Epics of China: The Intimate and the Local in Chinese Regional Culture is available in print and digital editions at the Cambria Press website and is in the Cambria Sinophone World Series, headed by Professor Victor Mair (University of Pennsylvania).