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Humour in Chinese Life and Culture : Resistance and Control in Modern Times by Jocelyn Chey (2013, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHong KONG University Press
ISBN-10988813924X
ISBN-139789888139248
eBay Product ID (ePID)5038712019
Product Key Features
Number of Pages404 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameHumour in Chinese Life and Culture : Resistance and Control in Modern Times
Publication Year2013
SubjectAsian / Chinese, Topic / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Social Science, Humor
AuthorJocelyn Chey
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight20 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsHumor is one of the best ways to gain a deep understanding of a culture, as it reflects a culture's ideals and anxieties, its taboos and its obsessions-but often in ways only understandable to those well versed in the culture. This volume highlights how well humor works as an 'entry point' into Chinese culture: making visible both deeply rooted cultural patterns, as well as novel developments as a result of economic progress, technological changes, and increasing cultural exchange., Humour in Chinese Life and Culture takes the analysis of Chinese humour in its highly informative companion volume Humour in Chinese Life and Letters: Classical and Traditional Approaches into the modern era. It is well known that humour is extremely difficult to appreciate cross-culturally, especially when one of the cultures (Chinese) is so rich in linguistic puns and socio-political contexts. This is especially true of the modern era, when joking one day can the following day be interpreted as political subversion and the joker punished. It is simply impossible for one person or one approach to analyze modern Chinese humour successfully. The editors have wisely commissioned a group of scholars from diverse geographical and disciplinary backgrounds to write about significant aspects relating to the topic. The result is another book that should be both fun and enlightening to read., "Highlights how well humour works as an 'entry point' into Chinese culture making visible deeply rooted cultural patterns, as well as novel developments as a result of economic progress, technological changes, and increasing cultural exchange." --Giselinde, Humor is one of the best ways to gain a deep understanding of a culture, as it reflects a culture's ideals and anxieties, its taboos and its obsessions -- but often in ways only understandable to those well versed in the culture. This volume highlights how well humor works as an 'entry point' into Chinese culture: making visible both deeply rooted cultural patterns, as well as novel developments as a result of economic progress, technological changes, and increasing cultural exchange., With colourful description of political and social currents and intellectual life in Chinese society providing essential context to the explication of Chinese humour in different decades, settings and modes, Humour in Chinese Life and Culture becomes, almost, an unintended short history of China since the 1920s, and one marvelously accessible, readable and enjoyable. Its revelatory historical gems are many, for example Barak Kushner's important piece on Japan in twentieth-century Chinese humour, explaining much about how the World War II victory over Japan is an essential part of the sense of identity and the idea of "we Chinese" in today's China. And on questions that so puzzle the West-what are people in China, now, thinking about, concerned with, debating, and what's the nature of their discourse-there are wonderful, and some wonderfully funny, insights on today's Chinese internet and social media, for example Christopher Rea on spoofing culture on the internet and X. L. Ding on the social meaning of freedom and political humour., With colourful description of political and social currents and intellectual life in Chinese society providing essential context to the explication of Chinese humour in different decades, settings and modes, Humour in Chinese Life and Culture becomes, almost, an unintended short history of China since the 1920s, and one marvelously accessible, readable and enjoyable. Its revelatory historical gems are many, for example Barak Kushner's important piece on Japan in twentieth-century Chinese humour, explaining much about how the World War II victory over Japan is an essential part of the sense of identity and the idea of "we Chinese" in today's China. And on questions that so puzzle the West--what are people in China, now, thinking about, concerned with, debating, and what's the nature of their discourse--there are wonderful, and some wonderfully funny, insights on today's Chinese internet and social media, for example Christopher Rea on spoofing culture on the internet and X. L. Ding on the social meaning of freedom and political humour., With colourful description of political and social currents and intellectual life in Chinese society providing essential context to the explication of Chinese humour in different decades, settings and modes, Humour in Chinese Life and Culture becomes, almost, an unintended short history of China since the 1920s, and one marvelously accessible, readable and enjoyable. Its revelatory historical gems are many, for example Barak Kushner's important piece on Japan in twentieth-century Chinese humour, explaining much about how the World War II victory over Japan is an essential part of the sense of identity and the idea of "we Chinese" in today's China. And on questions that so puzzle the West -- what are people in China, now, thinking about, concerned with, debating, and what's the nature of their discourse -- there are wonderful, and some wonderfully funny, insights on today's Chinese internet and social media, for example Christopher Rea on spoofing culture on the internet and X. L. Ding on the social meaning of freedom and political humour., Humor is serious business anywhere. It can also be dangerous. Humour in Chinese Life and Letters, Jocelyn Chey and Jessica Milner Davis's two-volume collection of essays on aspects of humor in Chinese literature, daily life and art over the last three mi|9789888139248|, This book is a fascinating tour of Chinese humour, its contexts and history, and its contemporary manifestations on- and off-line., Humour in Chinese Life and Culture takes the analysis of Chinese humour in its highly informative companion volume Humour in Chinese Life and Letters Classical and Traditional Approaches into the modern era. It is well known that humour is extremely diff|9789888139248|, Humor is one of the best ways to gain a deep understanding of a culture, as it reflects a culture's ideals and anxieties, its taboos and its obsessions--but often in ways only understandable to those well versed in the culture. This volume highlights how well humor works as an 'entry point' into Chinese culture: making visible both deeply rooted cultural patterns, as well as novel developments as a result of economic progress, technological changes, and increasing cultural exchange., "This book is a fascinating tour of Chinese humour, its contexts and history, and its contemporary manifestations on- and off-line." --Jeremy Goldkorn, Founder of Danwei.com, With colourful description of political and social currents and intellectual life in Chinese society providing essential context to the explication of Chinese humour in different decades, settings and modes, Humour in Chinese Life and Culture becomes, al|9789888139248|
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal306.4810951
SynopsisThis 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., This volume covers modern and contemporary forms of humour in China's public and private spheres, including comic films and novels, cartooning, pop songs, internet jokes, and advertising and educational humour. The second of two multidisciplinary volumes on humour in Chinese life and letters, this text also explores the relationship between the political control and popular expression of humour, such as China and Japan's exchange of comic stereotypes. It advances the methodology of cross-cultural and psychological studies of humour and underlines the economic and personal significance of humour in modern times.
LC Classification NumberPN6231
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