TY  - BOOK
AU  - Davis,Jessica Milner
AU  - Chey,Jocelyn Valerie
TI  - Humour in Chinese life and culture: resistance and control in modern times 
SN  - 9789888268054
AV  - PN6222 .H866 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Hong Kong [China]
PB  - Hong Kong University Press
KW  - Joking
KW  - China
KW  - Chinese wit and humor
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - "A companion volume to 'Humour in Chinese life and letters: classical and traditional approaches."; 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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