Humour in Chinese life and culture : resistance and control in modern times /
Humour in Chinese life and culture : resistance and control in modern times /
edited by Jessica Milner Davis and Jocelyn Chey.
- Hong Kong [China] : Hong Kong University Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource (xxii, 348 pages) : illustrations
"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 / The phantom of the clock : laughter and the time of life in the writings of Qian Zhongshu and his contemporaries / Unwarranted attention : the image of Japan in twentieth-century Chinese humour / Chinese cartoons and humour : the views of first- and second-generation cartoonists / "Love you to the bone" and other songs : humour and rusheng rhymes in early Cantopop / A "new" phenomenon of Chinese cinema : the Happy-New-Year comic movie / Spoofi ng (e'gao) culture on the Chinese Internet / Humour in new media : comparing China, Australia and the United States / Chinese concepts of humour and the role of humour in teaching / Laughing at others and being laughed at in Taiwan and Switzerland : a cross-cultural perspective / Freedom and political humour: their social meaning in contemporary China / Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. Jessica Milner Davis -- Diran John Sohigian -- Barak Kushner -- John A. Lent and Xu Ying -- Marjorie K.M. Chan and Jocelyn Chey -- Xu Ying and Xu Zhongquan -- Christopher G. Rea -- Heather J. Crawford -- Guo-Hai Chen -- Hsueh-Chih Chen, Yu-Chen Chan, Willibald Ruch and Rene T. Proyer -- X.L. Ding --
This book investigates the use of humor in the public sphere and in personal life in China. The contributors cover modern and contemporary forms --
9789888268054 9888268058
Joking--China.
Chinese wit and humor--History and criticism.
Chinese wit and humor.
Electronic Books.
PN6222 / .H866 2013
"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 / The phantom of the clock : laughter and the time of life in the writings of Qian Zhongshu and his contemporaries / Unwarranted attention : the image of Japan in twentieth-century Chinese humour / Chinese cartoons and humour : the views of first- and second-generation cartoonists / "Love you to the bone" and other songs : humour and rusheng rhymes in early Cantopop / A "new" phenomenon of Chinese cinema : the Happy-New-Year comic movie / Spoofi ng (e'gao) culture on the Chinese Internet / Humour in new media : comparing China, Australia and the United States / Chinese concepts of humour and the role of humour in teaching / Laughing at others and being laughed at in Taiwan and Switzerland : a cross-cultural perspective / Freedom and political humour: their social meaning in contemporary China / Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. Jessica Milner Davis -- Diran John Sohigian -- Barak Kushner -- John A. Lent and Xu Ying -- Marjorie K.M. Chan and Jocelyn Chey -- Xu Ying and Xu Zhongquan -- Christopher G. Rea -- Heather J. Crawford -- Guo-Hai Chen -- Hsueh-Chih Chen, Yu-Chen Chan, Willibald Ruch and Rene T. Proyer -- X.L. Ding --
This book investigates the use of humor in the public sphere and in personal life in China. The contributors cover modern and contemporary forms --
9789888268054 9888268058
Joking--China.
Chinese wit and humor--History and criticism.
Chinese wit and humor.
Electronic Books.
PN6222 / .H866 2013