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Humour in Chinese life and letters : classical and traditional approaches / edited by Jocelyn Chey and Jessica Milner Davis.

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Humour in Chinese life and letters : classical and traditional approaches / edited by Jocelyn Chey and Jessica Milner Davis.
Publication
Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press ; London : Eurospan [distributor], c2011.

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Additional Authors
  • Chey, Jocelyn Valerie.
  • Davis, Jessica Milner
Description
xviii, 291 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
This is the first book in either English or Chinese to address complex Chinese cultural traditions about humour and laughter. It brings a Chinese perspective to international studies of humour as a universal form of human behaviour through its scholarly and readable contributions ranging from language, literature and philosophy to medicine, history and politics.
Uniform Title
Project Muse UPCC books
Alternative Title
Humor in Chinese life and letters
Subject
  • Chinese wit and humor
  • Chinese wit and humor > History and criticism
  • Joking > China
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-275) and index.
Contents
Youmo and the Chinese sense of humour / Jocelyn Chey -- The theory of humours and traditional Chinese medicine : a preamble to chapter 3 / Jessica Milner Davis -- The qi that got lost in translation : traditional Chinese medicine, humour and healing / Rey Tiquia -- The classical Confucian concepts of human emotion and proper humour / Weihe Xu -- Identifying Daoist humour : reading the Liezi / Shirley Chan -- Shared humour : elitist joking in Shishuo xinyu (A new account of tales of the world) / Lily Xiao Hong Lee -- Chinese humour as reflected in love-theme comedies of the Yuan Dynasty / Andy Shui-lung Fung and Zhan Hang-Lun -- How humour humanizes a Confucian paragon : the case of Xue Baochai in Honglou meng / Weihe Xu -- Contextualizing Lin Yutang's essay "On humour" : introduction and translation / Joseph C. Sample -- Discovering humour in modern China : the launching of the Analects fortnightly journal and the "Year of humour" (1933) / Qian Suoqiao.
ISBN
  • 9789888083510 (hbk.)
  • 9888083511 (hbk.)
  • 9789888083527 (pbk.)
  • 988808352X (pbk.)
OCLC
  • 755073038
  • SCSB-13918901
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Harvard Library