02789nam 2200625 450 991078867720332120200520144314.0988-8053-94-9(CKB)3240000000065228(EBL)1694137(SSID)ssj0000606427(PQKBManifestationID)11388606(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606427(PQKBWorkID)10596529(PQKB)10252533(OCoLC)794698836(MdBmJHUP)muse3816(Au-PeEL)EBL1694137(CaPaEBR)ebr11047129(CaONFJC)MIL620726(OCoLC)880826945(MiAaPQ)EBC1694137(EXLCZ)99324000000006522820120411h20112011 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrHumour in Chinese life and letters classical and traditional approaches /edited by Jocelyn Chey and Jessica Milner DavisHong Kong :Hong Kong University Press,[2011]©20111 online resource (310 p.)Description based upon print version of record.988-8083-51-1 Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-275) and index.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; IndexThis 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.Chinese wit and humorChinese wit and humorHistory and criticismJokingChinaChinese wit and humor.Chinese wit and humorHistory and criticism.Joking306.4810951306.4810951Chey Jocelyn ValerieDavis Jessica MilnerMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910788677203321Humour in Chinese life and letters3752614UNINA