Humour in Chinese life and letters : classical and traditional approaches
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Main title:
Humour in Chinese life and letters : classical and traditional approaches / edited by Jocelyn Chey and Jessica Milner Davis
Imprint:
Aberdeen, HK: Hong Kong University Press 2011
Contents:
Youmo & the Chinese sense of humourThe theory of humours & traditional Chinese medicine: a preamble to chapter 3The Qi that lost in translation: traditional Chinese medicine, humour & healingThe classical Confucian concepts of human emotion & proper humourIdentifying Daoist humour: reading the LieziShared humour: elitist joking in Shishuo xinyu (a new account of tales of the world)Chinese humour as reflected in love-theme comedies of the Yuan dynastyHow humour humanizes a Confucian paragon: the case of Xue Baochai in Honglou mengContextualizing Lin Yutang's essay "On Humour": introduction & translationDiscovering humour in modern China: the launching of the Analects Fornightly journal & the "Year of Humour" (1933)
ISBN:
9789888083527
Dewey class:
808.87
Language:
English
BRN:
39212
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| McNally Campus | BA Acting | 808.87 HUM | Available |
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