Nantilus
Humour in Chinese life and letters : classical and traditional approaches
This book offers scholarly and accessible insights into how and why Chinese societies, past and present, approach humour in personal life and in the public sphere. It addresses the etymological difficulties of "humour" as a concept in Chinese language and understanding and explores connect...
Enregistré dans:
| Autres auteurs : | , |
|---|---|
| Format : | Livre |
| Langue : | anglais |
| Titre complet : | Humour in Chinese life and letters : classical and traditional approaches / edited by Jocelyn Chey and Jessica Milner Davis. |
| Publié : |
Baltimore, Md., Baltimore, Md. :
Project Muse
, 2012, 2013 Project MUSE |
| Collection : | Project MUSE - UPCC 2011 Literature Collection |
| Titre de l'ensemble : | Project MUSE - UPCC 2011 Literature Collection |
| Accès en ligne : |
Accès Nantes Université
Accès direct soit depuis les campus via le réseau ou le wifi eduroam soit à distance avec un compte @etu.univ-nantes.fr ou @univ-nantes.fr |
| Note sur l'URL : | Full text available: |
| Disponibilité : | L'accès à cette ressource est réservé aux membres de l'Université de Nantes et aux usagers de son SCD |
| Sujets : |
- Preface / Jocelyn Chey and Jessica Milner Davis
- 1. Youmo and the Chinese sense of humour / Jocelyn Chey
- 2. The theory of humours and traditional Chinese medicine : a preamble to chapter 3 / Jessica Milner Davis
- 3. The qi that got lost in translation : traditional Chinese medicine, humour and healing / Rey Tiquia
- 4. The classical Confucian concepts of human emotion and proper humour / Weihe Xu
- 5. Identifying Daoist humour : reading the Liezi / Shirley Chan
- 6. Shared humour : elitist joking in Shishuo xinyu (a new account of tales of the world) / Lily Xiao Hong Lee
- 7. Chinese humour as reflected in love-theme comedies of the Yuan Dynasty / Andy Shui-lung Fung and Zhan Hang-Lun
- 8. How humour humanizes a Confucian paragon : the case of Xue Baochai in Honglou meng / Weihe Xu
- 9. Contextualizing Lin Yutang's essay "On humour" : introduction and translation / Joseph C. Sample
- 10. Discovering humour in modern China : the launching of the Analects fortnightly journal and the "year of humour" (1933) / Qian Suoqiao
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.