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.
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Resistance and Control in Modern Times
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Resistance and Control in Modern Times
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- Front Cover
- Book Synopsis
- Author Biography
- Endorsements
- Half Title
- Dedication
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of illustrations and tables
- Contributors
- Editors' note
- Preface
- 1 Humour and its cultural context: Introduction and overview
- 2 The phantom of the clock: Laughter and the time of life in the writings of Qian Zhongshu and his contemporaries
- 3 Unwarranted attention: The image of Japan in twentieth-century Chinese humour
- 4 Chinese cartoons and humour: The views of first- and second-generation cartoonists
- 5 Love you to the bone' and other songs: Humour and 'rusheng' rhymes in early Cantopop
- 6 A 'new' phenomenon of Chinese cinema: The Happy-New-Year comic movie
- 7 Spoofing ('e'gao') culture on the Chinese internet
- 8 Humour in new media: Comparing China, Australia and the United States
- 9 Chinese concepts of humour and the role of humour in teaching
- 10 Laughing at others and being laughed at in Taiwan and Switzerland: A cross-cultural perspective
- 11 Freedom and political humour: Their social meaning in contemporary China
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plates
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