Not Just a Laughing Matter

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Political Humor in China

King-fai Tam, Sharon R. Wesoky (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

176 Seiten

2019 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
Springer Verlag, Singapore
978-981-13-5276-8 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	20.12.2018
Reihe/Serie	The Humanities in Asia ; 5
Zusatzinfo	8 Illustrations, color; 22 Illustrations, black and white; IX, 176 p. 30 illus., 8 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Schlagworte	Chinese Culture • Chinese Politics • Chinese Popular Culture • Interdisciplinary Exploration • Political Cartoon and Comics • Political Humor
ISBN-10	981-13-5276-3 / 9811352763
ISBN-13	978-981-13-5276-8 / 9789811352768
Zustand	Neuware