Author: Mair, Victor H.
Title: Painting and Performance. Chinese Picture Recitation and its Indian Genesis
Description: Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, (1988). orig.cloth. 24x16cm. xx,278 pp,. 58pp photo illustrations. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Introduction: Picture-Storytelling in Ancient India; Transmission of Picture Recitation through Central Asia; Indonesian Analogues; Picture-Storytelling in Recent & Modern India; Picture Recitation around the World.

Keywords: Picture Recitation, Oral literature, Chinese literature, Ancient India, Folk Buddhism, Pien-wen, Folklore, Ethnography, Storytelling