Some books on the Maonan

In Chinese

Liang Minpian. - Maonan yu jian zhi (Introduction to the language Maonan). Publishing house of the nationalities. Beijing. 1980. 110 pags.
On the language maonan. With presentation of his phonetics and lexicon, and especially grammar. And a small dictionary in the end.

Lu Minfei. - Maonan shanxiang fengqing lu (You notice on the folklore of the Maonan of the mountains). Publishing house of the nationalities of Sichuan. Chengdu. 1994. 319 pags.
On the culture in the mountain of the Maonan.

Meng Guorong. - Maonan zu fengsu zhi (The customs maonan) Publishing house of the Central Institute of the Nationalities. Beijing. 1988. 180 pags.
Garment and production, marriage and ritual cycles. Holidays and religion.

Meng Guorong and Wang Geding. - Maonan zu wenxue shi (History of the literature of the Maonan) Publishing house of the nationalities of Guangxi. Nanning. 1992. 385 pags.
From the first songs and ballads reflex of the remote times, to his myths of the creation of the world and of the man, happening for newer considered genres: legends of historical events, stories, stopping a little more in the most typical considered genres like the songs called "geshi". Although each of the genres is illustrated by several examples, they are not so abundant as to make his reading agreeable to the fan of the popular literatures.

Mo Jiaren. - Maonan zu (The Maonan) Publishing house of the nationalities. Beijing. 1988. 104 pags.
The volume of the collection of introduction relative to this people to the minorities, emphatically in the economic structure of the society, marriage, religion and culture.

Collective responsibility:

- Maonan zu, Jing zu minjian gushi xuan (Stories chosen between the Maonan and the Jing). Publishing house of the literature and the art of Shanghai. 1987. 584 pags.
One of the biggest compilations of stories Maonan, which it includes from his myths and legends, to the different types genres of present stories in his oral literature.

- Maonan zu jian shi (Brief history of the Maonan) Publishing house of the nationalities of Guangxi. Nanning. 1984. 79
In spite of the title this book removes little other volumes of this collection. Instead of a chronological history with the most important events of a people, there presents us the ancient society and the modern society of the Maonan.
This second begins logically with the establishment of the communist reforms in his grounds.

- Guangxi Huangjiang xian Xiatang xiang maonan zu shehui lishi diaocha baogao (I reported of the investigation of the society and history of the Maonan of the canton Xiatang of the county Huangjiang de Guangxi) Academy of Social Sciences of China. Beijing. 1965. 51 pags.
On the society of the Maonan in the canton Xiatang.

- Huaijiang xian Xianan qu Zhongnan xian Maonan zu shehui lishi diaocha baogao (I reported of the investigation of the history and society of the Maonan of the village Zhongnan in the area Xianan of the County of Huaijiang). Publishing house of the nationalities of Guangxi. Nanning.1965. 60 pags
On the Maonan of this area, as it indicates his long title.

- Maonan zu jian shi jian zhi hebian (Brief history of the Maonan). 120 pags.
Approach to the history of the Maonan.

- Huanjiang maonan ren qingkuang diaocha (Investigation on the situation of Maonan de Huanjiang). Publishing house of the nationalities of Guangxi. Nanning.1953. 168 pags.
One of the first studies on the Maonan published after the revolution of 1949. The relative freedom of the epoch turns to the book in a much more objective and interesting work, with a political load much minor than those who will be published in the following twenty years.

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