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.

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 discipli...

Table 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.