Not just a laughing matter : interdisciplinary approaches to political humor in China / King-fai Tam, Sharon R. Wesoky, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese wit and humor--History and criticism.

Chinese wit and humor.

Chinese wit and humor, Pictorial--History and criticism.

Chinese wit and humor, Pictorial.

Satire, Chinese--History and criticism.

Satire, Chinese.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Springer Verlag, 2017.

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Contents:

Acknowledgements; Contents; Contributors; 1 Introduction; Abstract; 1.1 Political Humor in China's Turbulent Twentieth Century; 1.1.1 Humor in China's Transitions Toward Socialism; 1.1.2 Joking in the PRC; 1.1.3 The "Special Amusing Region": Humor in Hong Kong; 1.2 Conclusion; References; Humor in China's Transitions Toward Socialism; 2 Illustrating Humor: Political Cartoons on Late Qing Constitutionalism; Abstract; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Humor Tradition Visualized; 2.3 Constitutionalism: A National Farce; 2.3.1 The Constitutional Mission: An Awkward China

2.3.2 Parliamentary Petition: The Government in Grotesque2.3.3 The Nine-Year Program: A Game of Numbers; 2.4 Constitutionalism: A Duplicate of Despotism; 2.5 Exerting Power: Council of Dogs; 2.6 Conclusion; References; 3 Humor, War and Politics in San Mao Joins the Army: A Comparison Between the Comic Strips (1946) and the Film (1992); Abstract; 3.1 Zhang Leping's Wartime Propaganda Cartoons; 3.2 War and Humor in SJTA; 3.3 The 1992 Film of SJTA; 3.4 Conclusion; References

4 Chinese Film Satire and Its Foreign Connections in the People's Republic of China (1950-1957): Laughter Without Borders?Abstract; 4.1 Laughing Matters; 4.2 Borrowed Laughter; 4.3 Parallel Divergence: Did We Meet Somewhere Before? and The Man Who Doesn't Bother About Trifles; 4.4 Conclusion; References; Joking in the PRC; 5 Keeping the Ci in Fengci: A Brief History of the Chinese Verbal Art of Xiangsheng; Abstract; 5.1 Introduction: The Origins of Xiangsheng; 5.2 Xiangsheng After 1949; 5.3 Xiangsheng in the Reform and Opening up Period; 5.4 The 1990s: Xiangsheng Adrift in the Marketplace

5.5 The Internet Explosion and the Rise of Guo Degang5.6 Conclusion; References; 6 Laughable Leaders: A Study of Political Jokes in Mainland China; Abstract; 6.1 The Unbearable Lightness of Laughing: The Political Joke, Joker, and Jokology; 6.2 Propaganda Pranks: Laughing Stocks in the Mythical Age; 6.3 Global Gags: Political Jokes in the Postrevolutionary Period; 6.3.1 The Freudian Offense: Sex and the Dirty; 6.3.2 The Internet Dissemination: The Global Transferability of Joke; References; 7 The Politics of Cynicism and Neoliberal Hegemony: Representations of Gender in Chinese Internet Humor

Abstract7.1 Internet Humor and the Significance of Gender; 7.2 Gendered Jokes and Privatized Politics; 7.3 Gendered Humor and Political Cynicism; 7.4 Conclusion: Privatized and Profane Politics; Acknowledgements; References; The "Special Amusing Region": Humor in Hong Kong; 8 Political Jokes, Caricatures and Satire in Wong Tze-wah's Standup Comedy; Abstract; 8.1 Standup Comedy in Hong Kong; 8.2 Wong Tze-wah, the Standup Comedian; 8.3 Political Jokes, Caricatures, and Satire; 8.4 Other Considerations; Acknowledgements; References

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9789811049606

9811049602

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99974491215

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