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Humour in Chinese Life and Letters (Volume One) : Classical and Traditional Approaches /

This book offers scholarly and accessible insights into how and why Chinese societies, past and present, approach humour in personal life and in the public sphere. It addresses the etymological difficulties of "humour" as a concept in Chinese language and understanding and explores connect...

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Autres auteurs: Chey, Jocelyn Valerie (Éditeur intellectuel), Davis, Jessica Milner (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Hong Kong [China] : Hong Kong University Press, 2011
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • Preface / Jocelyn Chey and Jessica Milner Davis
  • 1. Youmo and the Chinese sense of humour / Jocelyn Chey
  • 2. The theory of humours and traditional Chinese medicine : a preamble to chapter 3 / Jessica Milner Davis
  • 3. The qi that got lost in translation : traditional Chinese medicine, humour and healing / Rey Tiquia
  • 4. The classical Confucian concepts of human emotion and proper humour / Weihe Xu
  • 5. Identifying Daoist humour : reading the Liezi / Shirley Chan
  • 6. Shared humour : elitist joking in Shishuo xinyu (a new account of tales of the world) / Lily Xiao Hong Lee
  • 7. Chinese humour as reflected in love-theme comedies of the Yuan Dynasty / Andy Shui-lung Fung and Zhan Hang-Lun
  • 8. How humour humanizes a Confucian paragon : the case of Xue Baochai in Honglou meng / Weihe Xu
  • 9. Contextualizing Lin Yutang's essay "On humour" : introduction and translation / Joseph C. Sample
  • 10. Discovering humour in modern China : the launching of the Analects fortnightly journal and the "year of humour" (1933) / Qian Suoqiao
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.