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Titolo: | 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 | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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.: | 9910463868103321 |
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