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Title Not just a laughing matter : interdisciplinary approaches to political humor in China / King-fai Tam, Sharon R. Wesoky.

Publication Info. Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint : Springer, 2018.

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Description 1 online resource (IX, 176 pages) : 30 illustrations, 8 illustrations in color
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Series The Humanities in Asia, 2363-6890 ; 5
Humanities in Asia ; 5. 2363-6890
Contents 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.
Summary 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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
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Subject Politics and culture -- China.
Wit and humor -- Social aspects.
Cultural studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Asian -- General.
Wit and humor -- Social aspects
Politics and culture
Anthropological linguistics
Culture -- Study and teaching
Social sciences
China https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJcrd4RjtCBk4wfMhTwwG3
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Tam, King-fai, editor.
Wesoky, Sharon R., editor.
Other Form: Printed edition: 9789811049583
ISBN 9789811049606
9811049602
9811049580
9789811049583
9789811049583
9811049580
Standard No. 9789811049583
10.1007/978-981-10-4960-6