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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés Chino |
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Hong Kong [China] :
Hong Kong University Press,
2013.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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
- Spoofing (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.