Humor in Chinese Life and Letters

by Chey, Jocelyn; Davis, Jessica Milner

• ISBN13: 9789888083527
• ISBN10: 988808352X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-12-31
• Publisher: Hong Kong Univ Pr

Summary

This is the first book in either English or Chinese to address complex Chinese cultural traditions about humour and laughter. It brings a Chinese perspective to international studies of humour as a universal form of human behaviour through its scholarly and readable contributions ranging from language, literature and philosophy to medicine, history and politics.

Table of Contents

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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