List of Figures | p. ix |
Contributors | p. xi |
Preface | p. xvii |
Yonmo and the Chinese Sense of Humour | p. 1 |
The Theory of Humours and Traditional Chinese Medicine: A Preamble to Chapter 3 | p. 31 |
The Qi That Got Lost in Translation: Traditional Chinese Medicine, Humour and Healing | p. 37 |
The Classical Confucian Concepts of Human Emotion and Proper Humour | p. 49 |
Identifying Daoist Humour: Reading the Liezi | p. 73 |
Shared Humour: Elitist Joking in Shishuo xinyu (A New Account of Tales of the World) | p. 89 |
Chinese Humour as Reflected in Love-Theme Comedies of the Yuan Dynasty | p. 117 |
How Humour Humanizes a Confucian Paragon: The Case of Xue Baochai in Honglou meng | p. 139 |
Contextualizing Lin Yutang's essay "On Humour": Introduction and Translation | p. 269 |
Discovering Humour in Modern China: The Launching of the Analects Forbiightly Journal and the "Year of Humour" (1933) | p. 191 |
Notes | p. 219 |
Bibliography | p. 255 |
Index | p. 277 |
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