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Humour in Chinese life and culture : resistance and control in modern times / edited by Jessica Milner Davis and Jocelyn Chey.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, Chinese Original language: Chinese Publication details: Hong Kong [China] : Hong Kong University Press, (c)2013.Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 348 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789888268054
  • 9888268058
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN6222 .H866 2013
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Contributors xi -- Editors' note xix -- Preface -- Humour and its cultural context : introduction and overview / Jessica Milner Davis -- The phantom of the clock : laughter and the time of life in the writings of Qian Zhongshu and his contemporaries / Diran John Sohigian -- Unwarranted attention : the image of Japan in twentieth-century Chinese humour / Barak Kushner -- Chinese cartoons and humour : the views of first- and second-generation cartoonists / John A. Lent and Xu Ying -- "Love you to the bone" and other songs : humour and rusheng rhymes in early Cantopop / Marjorie K.M. Chan and Jocelyn Chey -- A "new" phenomenon of Chinese cinema : the Happy-New-Year comic movie / Xu Ying and Xu Zhongquan -- Spoofi ng (e'gao) culture on the Chinese Internet / Christopher G. Rea -- Humour in new media : comparing China, Australia and the United States / Heather J. Crawford -- Chinese concepts of humour and the role of humour in teaching / Guo-Hai Chen -- Laughing at others and being laughed at in Taiwan and Switzerland : a cross-cultural perspective / Hsueh-Chih Chen, Yu-Chen Chan, Willibald Ruch and Rene T. Proyer -- Freedom and political humour: their social meaning in contemporary China / X.L. Ding -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Subject: This book investigates the use of humor in the public sphere and in personal life in China. The contributors cover modern and contemporary forms --
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"A companion volume to 'Humour in Chinese life and letters: classical and traditional approaches."

Includes bibliographies and index.

List of illustrations and tables vii -- Contributors xi -- Editors' note xix -- Preface -- Humour and its cultural context : introduction and overview / Jessica Milner Davis -- The phantom of the clock : laughter and the time of life in the writings of Qian Zhongshu and his contemporaries / Diran John Sohigian -- Unwarranted attention : the image of Japan in twentieth-century Chinese humour / Barak Kushner -- Chinese cartoons and humour : the views of first- and second-generation cartoonists / John A. Lent and Xu Ying -- "Love you to the bone" and other songs : humour and rusheng rhymes in early Cantopop / Marjorie K.M. Chan and Jocelyn Chey -- A "new" phenomenon of Chinese cinema : the Happy-New-Year comic movie / Xu Ying and Xu Zhongquan -- Spoofi ng (e'gao) culture on the Chinese Internet / Christopher G. Rea -- Humour in new media : comparing China, Australia and the United States / Heather J. Crawford -- Chinese concepts of humour and the role of humour in teaching / Guo-Hai Chen -- Laughing at others and being laughed at in Taiwan and Switzerland : a cross-cultural perspective / Hsueh-Chih Chen, Yu-Chen Chan, Willibald Ruch and Rene T. Proyer -- Freedom and political humour: their social meaning in contemporary China / X.L. Ding -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book investigates the use of humor in the public sphere and in personal life in China. The contributors cover modern and contemporary forms --

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