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urn:uuid:2731819e-7b4a-456c-a737-25080105ef6f 03 01 01 urn:uuid:2731819e-7b4a-456c-a737-25080105ef6f 15 9781805115274 06 10.11647/OBP.0452 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 01 01 Careful Village and Other 'Khashag' from Tibet The Amdo Comedies of Menla Jyab 1 A01 Menla Jyab 2 B06 21 0000-0002-3671-641X Timothy Thurston 3 B06 21 0000-0001-5468-2180 Tsering Samdrup 4 B01 21 0000-0002-3671-641X Timothy Thurston 5 B01 21 0000-0001-5468-2180 Tsering Samdrup 01 eng 00 328 03 93 ATY B2 Folklore and Ethnology 04 PL3748.S58 10 SOC002010 20 Tibetan cultural revival B2 Asian Studies 93 JHMC 20 Khashag spoken dialogues 10 PER011020 93 DSA 10 LIT008000 B2 Literature 20 Menla Jyab comedies 10 HIS008000 93 NHF B2 Other languages 20 Tibetan expressive culture B2 Anthropology 93 CFB 10 LAN009050 20 Post-Mao Tibetan literature 93 AVA 20 Cross-cultural performance analysis 10 MUS015000 03 00 <p>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’. </p><p>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.</p> 04 00 Statement about Romanization and Languages Acknowledgements Foreword Mark Turin Translators’ Introduction: Contextualizing Amdo Tibetan Comedy in Post-Mao China Timothy Thurston and Tsering Samdrup 1. The Artist སྒྱུ་རྩལ་པ། 2. Boasting ལབ་རྒྱག་པ། 3. The Dream རྨིི་ལམ། 4. All-good Menla སྨན་བླ་ཀུན་བཟང་། 5. Elders’ Conversations ལོ ོ་ལོོན་ཚོོའིི་ཁ་བརྡ། 6. Please, Dear Leader དཔོོན་པོོ་མཁྱེེན། 7. The Telephone ཁ་པར། 8. Careful Village’s Grassland Dispute སེེམས་ཆུང་སྡེེ་བའིི་ས་རྩོོད། 9. Careful Village’s Bride སེེམས་ཆུང་སྡེེ་བའིི་མནའ་མ། 10. Careful Village’s Wedding སེེམས་ཆུང་སྡེེ་བའིི་སྟོོན་མོོ། 11. Careful Village’s Thief སེེམས་ཆུང་སྡེེ་བའིི་རྐུན་མ། Index 20 00 Open Access Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers Cambridge, UK 04 01 20250916 13 15 9781805115267 09 Open Book Publishers 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0452.pdf 99 01 09 Open Book Publishers 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/OBP.0452 99 01