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The Age of Irreverence : A New History of Laughter in China /
The Age of Irreverence tells the story of why China's entry into the modern age was not just traumatic, but uproarious. As the Qing dynasty slumped toward extinction, prominent writers compiled jokes into collections they called "histories of laughter." In the first years of the Repub...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, CA :
University of California Press,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Executive Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Breaking into Laughter 失笑
- 2. Jokes 笑話百出
- 3. Play 游戲大觀
- 4. Mockery 駡人的藝術
- 5. Farce 滑稽魂
- 6. The Invention of Humor 幽默年
- Epilogue 笑死
- Appendix One: Selected Chinese Humor Collections, 1900-1937
- Appendix Two: Which Classic? Editions and Paratexts
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index