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Hong Kong University Press Humour in Chinese Life and Culture Resistance and Control in Modern Times by Jessica Davis and Jocelyn Chey
This volume covers modern and contemporary forms of humour in Chinas 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 Japans 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.show more