Four Masters of Chinese Storytelling: Full-length Repertoires of Yangzhou Storytelling on Video Islam Martin Seeger lays out the

Martin Seeger lays out the nuances and varying conceptions of female renunciation in modern Thai Buddhism

The book illuminates the intimate aspects of how Thai male migrants have transcended their harsh reality while living under Singapore’s strict regulations governing foreign workers

He has taught history and international relations in Xiamen University and is also the editor of the Journal of Southeast Asian Affairs

spanning some forty years … For this reason alone it is unique in the social science ethnographic literature pertaining to Thailand

and motives of those who participated in the movement

Four Masters of Chinese Storytelling: Full-length Repertoires of Yangzhou Storytelling on Video Islam Martin Seeger lays out theEdited by Vibeke Brdahl, Fei Li & Huang Ying 2004, 415 pp, 15x23 cm., Hardback & VCD This volume has its origins in the project 'Large scale Registration of Chinese Storytelling', which involved the recording on film of 360 hours of performances by the four masters of Yangzhou storytelling, Dai Buzhang, Fei Zhengliang, Gao Zaihua and Ren Jitang. Four sets of these films have been deposited (in Washington D. C., Taipei, Beijing and Copenhagen) so that