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

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Tam, King-fai (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Wesoky, Sharon R. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: The Humanities in Asia, 5
• Subjects: Linguistic anthropology.; Cultural studies.; Culture-Study and teaching.; Linguistic Anthropology.; Cultural Studies.; Regional and Cultural Studies.
• Physical Description: IX, 176 p. 30 illus., 8 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9789811049606
• ISSN: 2363-6890 ;
• DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-4960-6

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.