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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796855203321

Autore

Gan Wendy

Titolo

Comic China : representing common ground, 1890-1945 / / Wendy Gan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia ; ; Rome ; ; Tokyo : , : Temple University Press, , 2018

ISBN

1-4399-1631-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (318 pages)

Disciplina

909/.09821

Soggetti

East and West

Asia Foreign public opinion, Western History

China In popular culture

Western countries Humor

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Dreaming with China : chinoiserie and musical comedy -- Ernest Bramah's Chinese fictions : chinoiserie and comfortable familiarity -- Comic mastery : Arthur Henderson Smith and J.O.P. Bland -- Levelling laughter : travel writing in China between the wars -- Comic parity : the new Shanghailander, likability, and amiable humour.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book looks at Anglo-American comic representations of China, arguing that that there is a forgotten history within these comic depictions that is about finding common ground through humor rather than about expressing superiority and ridicule"--