The Humanities in Asia: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Political Humor in China

Tam, King-fai; Wesoky, Sharon R.

This book offers the first comprehensive and in-depth exploration of the way Chinese humor fits into broader discourses on Chinese identity and modernity in an increasingly globalized world throughout the period of modern China. It brings together the expertise of scholars from a variety of disciplines – history, literature, linguistics, anthropology, sociology and the study of popular culture – to examine the many forms and modes in which political humor is expressed in modern China: films, cartoons, the visual arts, oral performances and online satire.​

Details

Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 2017-09-06

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9789811049583

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-4960-6

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 176