03066nam 22005775 450 991030085510332120200630035845.0981-10-4960-210.1007/978-981-10-4960-6(CKB)3780000000451431(DE-He213)978-981-10-4960-6(MiAaPQ)EBC4987569(EXLCZ)99378000000045143120170828d2018 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierNot Just a Laughing Matter Interdisciplinary Approaches to Political Humor in China /edited by King-fai Tam, Sharon R. Wesoky1st ed. 2018.Singapore :Springer Singapore :Imprint: Springer,2018.1 online resource (IX, 176 p. 30 illus., 8 illus. in color.) The Humanities in Asia,2363-6890 ;5981-10-4958-0 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.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.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.The Humanities in Asia,2363-6890 ;5Linguistic anthropologyCultural studiesCulture—Study and teachingLinguistic Anthropologyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X12020Cultural Studieshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22040Regional and Cultural Studieshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411000Linguistic anthropology.Cultural studies.Culture—Study and teaching.Linguistic Anthropology.Cultural Studies.Regional and Cultural Studies.895.10917Tam King-faiedthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtWesoky Sharon Redthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edtMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910300855103321Not Just a Laughing Matter2102276UNINA