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UNINA9910788677203321 |
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Titolo |
Humour in Chinese life and letters : classical and traditional approaches / / edited by Jocelyn Chey and Jessica Milner Davis |
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Hong Kong : , : Hong Kong University Press, , [2011] |
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©2011 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (310 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Chinese wit and humor |
Chinese wit and humor - History and criticism |
Joking - China |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-275) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; List of Figures; Contributors; Preface; 1: Youmo and the Chinese Sense of Humour; 2: The Theory of Humours and Traditional; 3: The Qi That Got Lost in Translation; 4: The Classical Confucian Concepts of Human Emotion and Proper Humour; 5: Identifying Daoist Humour; 6: Shared Humour; 7: Chinese Humour as Reflected in Love-Theme Comedies of the Yuan Dynasty; 8: How Humour Humanizes a Confucian Paragon; 9: Contextualizing Lin Yutang's Essay "On Humour"; 10: Discovering Humour in Modern China; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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