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Mark Bender

Social Sciences · The Ohio State University

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Established · publishing since 1975
Chinese history and philosophyVietnamese History and Culture StudiesChina's Ethnic Minorities and RelationsFolklore, Mythology, and Literature StudiesAsian Culture and Media Studies

Publications

95

Citations

286

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

51

Publishing since 1975

Research summary
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Mark Bender studies the oral traditions, epic poetry, and folk literature of ethnic minority groups in China, particularly the Yi (Nuosu) and other communities in southwest China and neighboring regions like northeast India. His work involves translating and analyzing origin myths, epics, and songs, and examining how these traditions are transmitted and preserved across cultures.

Chinese ethnic minority oral traditions and epicsYi (Nuosu) origin myths and creation epicsTranslation of folk literature from ChinaSouthwest China and northeast India border poetry and cultureComparative folklore and mythology studies

Publication output has been fairly steady but modest over the past decade, with a peak of six items in 2019 and typically one to two publications per year in other years.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 1.4/year recently
2017: 2 publications172018: 1 publication182019: 6 publications6192020: 2 publications202021: 2 publications212022: 2 publications222023: 2 publications232024: 2 publications242025: 1 publication2526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • CHINOPERL×3
  • Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies×2
  • Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB)×2
  • Chinese Literature Today×1
  • ResearchWorks at the University of Washington (University of Washington)×1
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.

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