Monguor

Fading Memories, Faded Lives: Mongghul (Tu) Photographs from Qinghai China

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Limusishiden, Jugui, Kelly Ward, and CK Stuart. 2014. Fading Memories, Faded Lives: Mongghul (Tu) Photographs from Qinghai China. Asian Highlands Perspectives 34.This collection of 131 photos features four introductions that discuss the development of commercial photography in the Huzhu area of Qinghai Province, China; details of photo collection; the social place of photographs within traditional socio-religious cultures; and how photographs are displayed within the home. For each photo there is commentary describing the when and where of their production and the people in each image. Biographic details include ethnicity, language abilities, family ties, educational background, garb and, at times, medical history.
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Three Treasures: Huzhu Mongghul Folklore

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This collection of Huzhu Mongghul (Tu) folktales, riddles, songs, and jokes features website links to audio files of the original tellers' materials for each folklore item, as well as a link to each item as retold by Limusishiden and Jugui, who collected the material in Huzhu Mongghul Autonomous County, Haidong Region, Qinghai Province, PR China, in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
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Three Treasures: Huzhu Mongghul Folklore

Aaguqog, Changminjii, Dalaxji, Danjen Dunzhu, Durijinsuu, Huwushijiu, Majii, Maxangfii, Moya Aaga, Niigari et al. "Three Treasures: Huzhu Mongghul Folklore." Asian Highlands Perspectives 16 (2012): 1-507.

Mongghul Memories and Lives

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Limusishiden (b. 1968) describes his lived experiences and recollections related to language, education, traditional beliefs, and folklore; provides details of his parents, three paternal aunts, and paternal grandparents' lives; describes Tughuan (Tuguan 土官) Village; and reports on a visit to Jija Nuri (Jijialing 吉家岭) Village in 2007 and its rapid cultural transformation, providing unique insights into Mongghul (Tu 土; Monguor) life in Huzhu 互助 Mongghul Autonomous County, Haidong 海东 Region, Qinghai 青海 Province, PR China in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
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A Response to Ways and the Syntax of Noun Phrases in Qinghai Chinese Dialects

Dede, Keith. "A Response to Ways and the Syntax of Noun Phrases in Qinghai Chinese Dialects." Asian Highlands Perspectives 1 (2009): 331-347.
  • Amdo Tibetan
  • Chinese dialects
  • language contact
  • syntax

A Response to Ways and the Syntax of Noun Phrases in Qinghai Chinese Dialects

Abstract: 
In the course of offering a review of Zhang Chengcai's Ways, this paper describes the syntax of noun phrases in the Chinese dialect of Huangshui, in Qinghai Province. Unlike other Chinese dialects, this dialect employs several postpositions for indicating syntactic nominal relationships. The origin of this phenomenon in contact with non-Sinitic languages in the region and its significance are also explored.
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  • Amdo Tibetan
  • Chinese dialects
  • language contact
  • syntax

Review-Wutun

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I once heard a presentation in which the speaker gave atypology of 'mixed languages', the final type of which was 'languages that should not be', and the only example of this type given was Wutun. This evaluation was based on confusing details about Wutun that had, to that time,appeared in scholarly publications. Based on the descriptions found in such publications as Chen (1982,1988, 1989), Li (1984, 1986), Wurm (1995), and especiallythe analysis presented by Lee-Smith and Wurm (1996), Wutun appeared to be a fairly random mixture of Tibetan, Chinese, and Mongolian elements. Randomness in linguistic structure, of course, should not be, and a random mixture of elements from three source languages would be unusual indeed.
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