Western Folklore

Hop on pop: jiangshi films in a transnational context.(GLOBAL CINEMA)(Critical essay)
CineAction; 12/22/2009; 6689 words; ...similarities to and differences from Western vampires and the most effective...technically not of the same ilk as a Western vampire in that it does not...accurately, according to Chinese folklore, they are the revenants or...impulse in both Chinese and Western viewers. Due to the jiangshi...

Queen of the night ; Punjab's forgotten dance girls whose grace, glamour and talent livened up royal nights once upon a time.
India Today; 12/7/2009; 839 words; ...singer Lal Kanwar whose glamour and charm became part of folklore. Her adventurous romance with emperor Jahandar Shah, the...immoral entertainment. Indian social reformers influenced by western ideas and Victorian moral values also joined the fray and started...

Dell Hymes; scholar stressed cultural setting of language
The Boston Globe; 11/24/2009; 1037 words; ...Association, the Linguistic Society of America, and the American Folklore Society, and was inaugural editor of the journal Language...literature, much of it oral, of indigenous peoples. Where Western scholarship had long dismissed this literature as the formless...

UNDERWATERCOLORS.(Pasatiempo)
The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM); 11/20/2009; 1087 words; ...depicted in seemingly absurd activities with sometimes overt references to sexuality, do draw from Chinese folklore as well as Western mythological traditions, but she has developed her own look. "I will consciously pick out patterns, or costumes...

Never judge a man by his looks or his dressing.(News)
Post (South Africa); 11/18/2009; 738 words; ...a prominent Chinese youth went to America to be educated in Western ways. He attended the University of Chicago. This young Oriental...illustrated in the case of a famous character from Turkish folklore, Nasreddin Hoja. The Turkish word 'Hoja' means 'Teacher...