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The Guo fan ge or “Songs of the Going Abroad” are poems written in Southern dialects, here mainly Minnanhua 闽南话 (with some in Fuzhouhua 福州话), that circulated in the Chinese communities of Fujian, Taiwan and Southeast Asia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They constitute a minor part of the vernacular songbooks or changben 唱本 that were written in verse (of seven, six, five, and four feet), and eventually published in highly popular editions in Xiamen and other cities in South China. ... |
