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Butterfly Mother: Miao (Hmong) Creation Epics from Guizhou, China (Hackett Classics) (1st Edition) by Mark Bender (Translator), Jin Dan (Editor), Ma Xueliang (Editor), Contributor-Jin Dan, Contributor-Xueliang Ma Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2006 ISBN-10: 0-87220-849-4 / 0872208494 ISBN-13: 978-0-87220-849-0 / 9780872208490 Butterfly Mother is a collection of epic songs from the rich oral tradition of the Miao (Hmong) people of southwest China. These poetic narratives, traditionally performed by two groups of singers, relate the creation of a world in which everything is alive, and listeners find that besides mountain |