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| dc:title | Careful Village and Other Khashag from Tibet |
| dc:creator | Timothy Thurston;Tsering Samdrup |
| dc:subject | Tibetan cultural revival;Khashag spoken dialogues;Menla Jyabb comedies;Tibetan expressive culture;Post-Mao Tibetan literature;Cross-cultural performance analysis |
| dc:description | This volume offers a unique glimpse into the world of khashag, a vibrant genre of Tibetan spoken comic dialogues from the area Tibetans call Amdo, with the first ever publication of 11 annotated translations of scripts by its leading performer, Menla Jyab. Emerging in the 1980s during a period of cultural revival in Tibetan communities, khashag fused traditional Tibetan expression with influences from Han Chinese xiangsheng (crosstalk), evolving into a medium of sharp societal critique and joyous entertainment. Menla Jyab, a pioneering performer, used his platform in radio, television, to craft comedies described as ‘having meaning in every line’. Drawing on a decade and a half of Tim Thurston’s research and his and Tsering Samdrup’s close connections with Menla Jyab, this groundbreaking work brings these culturally significant performances to English-speaking audiences for the first time.This richly contextualized volume explores the genre’s linguistic intricacies, performative brilliance, and cultural resonance, highlighting its role in overcoming literacy barriers to reach a broad audience. The translations, based on published scripts and transcribed recordings, are accompanied by insightful notes that illuminate the subtle interplay of humor, critique, and identity in Tibetan life. Careful Village is an indispensable resource for scholars and enthusiasts of Tibetan culture, performance studies, and oral traditions. |
| dc:date | 2025-09-10T13:44:47Z |
| dc:language | en-GB |
| dc:rights | ©2025 Menla Jyab (author). Timothy Thurston and Tsering Samdrup (translation and notes), CC BY-NC 4.0 |
| dc:identifier | urn:uuid:54642469-38be-4028-924d-eba4d307b9d4 | 978-1-80511-528-1 |
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TOC Outline
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Statement about Romanization and Languages
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Translators’ Introduction: Contextualizing Amdo Tibetan Comedy inPost-Mao China
- 1. The Artistསྒྱུ་རྩལ་པ།1
- 2. Boastingལབ་རྒྱག་པ།1
- 3. The Dreamརྨི་ལམ།1
- 4. All-good Menlaསྨན་བླ་ཀུན་བཟང་།1
- 5. Elders’ Conversationsལོ་ལོན་ཚོའི་ཁ་བརྡ།1
- 6. Please, Dear Leaderདཔོན་པོ་མཁྱེན།1
- 7. The Telephoneཁ་པར།1
- 8. Careful Village’s Grassland Dispute སེམས་ཆུང་སྡེ་བའི་ས་རྩོད།1
- 9. Careful Village’s Brideསེམས་ཆུང་སྡེ་བའི་མནའ་མ།1
- 10. Careful Village’s Weddingསེམས་ཆུང་སྡེ་བའི་སྟོན་མོ།1
- 11. Careful Village’s Thiefསེམས་ཆུང་སྡེ་བའི་རྐུན་མ།1
- Index
- About the team
- This book need not end here…
- You may also be interested in:
- Back cover
Headings Outline
- Table of Contents
- Statement about Romanization and Languages
- Presentation of Amdo Dialect
- Presentation of Chinese Words
- Presentation of Tibetan and Chinese Terms Transliterated in the English
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Translators’ Introduction: Contextualizing Amdo Tibetan Comedy inPost-Mao China
- Amdo: A (Comically) Brief Introduction
- About Khashag
- Uncle Menla
- The Language of Menla Jyab
- Interjections, Fillers, and Discourse Markers
- Pro-drop and Delayed Subject
- Oaths and Cursing
- Metaphors
- Tamhwé (གཏམ་དཔེ།)
- Khahwé (ཁ་དཔེ།)
- Formulaic Epithets
- Honorifics and Humilifics
- Ways of Speaking/Imitating Different People
- Loanwords
- Revolutionary-influenced Neologisms
- Sarcastic Toponyms and Names
- Reading Uncle Menla’s Cultural Critique
- About the Translations
- References
- 1. The Artistསྒྱུ་རྩལ་པ།1
- 2. Boastingལབ་རྒྱག་པ།1
- 3. The Dreamརྨི་ལམ།1
- 4. All-good Menlaསྨན་བླ་ཀུན་བཟང་།1
- 5. Elders’ Conversationsལོ་ལོན་ཚོའི་ཁ་བརྡ།1
- 6. Please, Dear Leaderདཔོན་པོ་མཁྱེན།1
- 7. The Telephoneཁ་པར།1
- 8. Careful Village’s Grassland Dispute སེམས་ཆུང་སྡེ་བའི་ས་རྩོད།1
- 9. Careful Village’s Brideསེམས་ཆུང་སྡེ་བའི་མནའ་མ།1
- 10. Careful Village’s Weddingསེམས་ཆུང་སྡེ་བའི་སྟོན་མོ།1
- 11. Careful Village’s Thiefསེམས་ཆུང་སྡེ་བའི་རྐུན་མ།1
- Index
- About the team
- Contents
- Landmarks
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