Feng Menglong's Treasury of Laughs : a seventeenth-century anthology of traditional Chinese humour / by Hsu Pi-ching.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hsu, Pi-Ching.

Series:

Emotions and States of Mind in East Asia 5.

Emotions and states of mind in East Asia ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese wit and humor.

Feng, Menglong, 1574-1646. Xiao fu.

Feng, Menglong.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (370 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Treasury of Laughs is a treasure house for students of literature, psycholinguistics, history, sociology, and cultural anthropology. Feng Menglong systematically collected and edited 700-odd humourous skits that presented the entire spectrum of traditional Chinese jokes, and wrote commentaries of great philosophical insight. The anthology offers satirical caricatures of human follies from the cradle to the grave and reveals tension in all sectors of human societies and institutions. Hsu Pi-ching reconstructs the complete Ming Chinese original with meticulous editorial work, in modern punctuated typesetting, and provides the only complete English translation available, with useful footnotes on word plays, literary allusions, and historical background. Readers should find the introductory essays on the connections between humour and emotions/states of mind particularly illuminating.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Hsu Pi-ching

Introduction / Hsu Pi-ching

Feng Menglong’s Preface 笑府序 / Hsu Pi-ching

1 Age-Old Envy 古艷 / Hsu Pi-ching

2 Rotten Scholars 腐流 / Hsu Pi-ching

3 The Untouchables 世諱 / Hsu Pi-ching

4 Occultism and Medicine 方術 / Hsu Pi-ching

5 Various Vocations 廣萃 / Hsu Pi-ching

6 Extraordinary Faculties 殊稟 / Hsu Pi-ching

7 Petty Sport 細娛 / Hsu Pi-ching

8 Mocking Vulgarity 刺俗 / Hsu Pi-ching

9 Air of Sexually Sophisticated Women 閨風 / Hsu Pi-ching

10 Body Parts 形體 / Hsu Pi-ching

11 Funny Mistakes 謬誤 / Hsu Pi-ching

12 Daily Necessities 日用 / Hsu Pi-ching

13 Intercalary Words 閏語 / Hsu Pi-ching

Index / Hsu Pi-ching.

Notes:

Includes index.

Contains:

Feng, Menglong, 1574-1646. Xiao fu. English.

OCLC:

907814345

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004293236 DOI