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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300855103321

Titolo

Not Just a Laughing Matter : Interdisciplinary Approaches to Political Humor in China / / edited by King-fai Tam, Sharon R. Wesoky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018

ISBN

981-10-4960-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IX, 176 p. 30 illus., 8 illus. in color.)

Collana

The Humanities in Asia, , 2363-6890 ; ; 5

Disciplina

895.10917

Soggetti

Linguistic anthropology

Cultural studies

Culture—Study and teaching

Linguistic Anthropology

Cultural Studies

Regional and Cultural Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Section one: Humor in the Late Qing and Early Republic -- Section Two: Cartoons for the Communist Cause -- Section Three: Humor in Cinema, from the Mao Era to the 21st Century -- Section Four: Spoken Humor in China -- Section Five: Spoken Humor in Hong Kong -- Section Six: High Technology and Satire.

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers the first comprehensive and in-depth exploration of the way Chinese humor fits into broader discourses on Chinese identity and modernity in an increasingly globalized world throughout the period of modern China. It brings together the expertise of scholars from a variety of disciplines – history, literature, linguistics, anthropology, sociology and the study of popular culture – to examine the many forms and modes in which political humor is expressed in modern China: films, cartoons, the visual arts, oral performances and online satire.