Humour in Chinese Life and Culture

Humour in Chinese Life and Culture
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Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Total Pages : 388
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ISBN-10 : 9789888139231
ISBN-13 : 9888139231
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Book Synopsis Humour in Chinese Life and Culture by : Jessica Davis Milner

Download or read book Humour in Chinese Life and Culture written by Jessica Davis Milner and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the use of humor in the public sphere and in personal life in China. The contributors cover modern and contemporary forms -- comic films and novels, cartooning, pop-songs, internet jokes, and humor in advertising and education. The second of two multidisciplinary volumes designed for the general reader as well as academic audiences, the book explores the relationship between political control and popular expression of humor, including the mutual exchange of comic stereotypes between China and Japan, and draws out important methodological implications for psychological and cross-cultural studies of humor.


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