Not Just a Laughing Matter - Interdisciplinary Approaches to Political Humor in China

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.

List of 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.​

Product details

• Assisted by: R Wesoky (Editor), R Wesoky (Editor), King-fa Tam (Editor), King-fai Tam (Editor), Sharon R. Wesoky (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9789811049583
• ISBN: 978-981-10-4958-3
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 181 mm x 246 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 397 g
• Illustrations: IX, 176 p. 30 illus., 8 illus. in color.
• Series: The Humanities in Asia; The Humanities in Asia
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; B, Cultural Studies, Social Sciences, Regional and Cultural Studies, Regional Cultural Studies, Regional Studies, Culture—Study and teaching, Linguistic Anthropology