Ashima - Ashima

…After liberation, he was transferred from Tsinghua University to become president of Yunnan University, where he also devoted himself to the study and organization of folk literature. He reorganized the long epic poem "Ashima" by the Sani (a minority group in Yunnan) and served as a literary advisor when it was adapted into a film, but he was criticized and persecuted for the film adaptation during the Cultural Revolution, and died there. [Sakai Toyoo]…

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…解放後は清華大学から雲南大学校長に転任，民間文学の整理研究にも尽力した。雲南少数民族サニ(撒尼)人(イ(彝)族に含まれる)の長編叙事詩《アシマ(阿詩瑪)》を再整理し，その映画化に際しては文学顧問をつとめたが，文化大革命中その映画化をめぐって批判，迫害をうけ死去した。【坂井 東洋男】。…

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