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Humour in Chinese Life and Culture : Resistance and Control in Modern Times /

This book investigates the use of humor in the public sphere and in personal life in China. The contributors cover modern and contemporary forms -- comic films and novels, cartooning, pop-songs, internet jokes, and humor in advertising and education. The second of two multidisciplinary volumes desig...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Davis, Jessica Milner (Editor ), Chey, Jocelyn Valerie (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Chino
Publicado: Hong Kong [China] : Hong Kong University Press, 2013
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.