Humour in Chinese life and letters : classical and traditional approaches / / edited by Jocelyn Chey and Jessica Milner Davis

• Pubblicazione: Hong Kong : , : Hong Kong University Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (310 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.4810951
• Soggetto topico: Chinese wit and humor; Chinese wit and humor - History and criticism; Joking - China
• Persona (resp. second.): CheyJocelyn Valerie; DavisJessica Milner
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-275) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Humour in Chinese life and letters
• ISBN: 988-8053-94-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826876203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II