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UNINA9910825472403321 |
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Autore |
Gan Wendy |
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Titolo |
Comic China : representing common ground, 1890-1945 / / Wendy Gan |
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Philadelphia ; ; Rome ; ; Tokyo : , : Temple University Press, , 2018 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (318 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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East and West |
Asia Foreign public opinion, Western History |
China In popular culture |
Western countries Humor |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"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"-- |
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