Humour in Chinese Life and Culture

Humour in Chinese Life and CultureThis volume covers modern and contemporary forms of humour in China's public and private spheres, including comic films and novels, cartooning, pop songs, internet jokes, and advertising and educational humour. The second of two multidisciplinary volumes on humour in Chinese life and letters, this text also explores the relationship between the political control and popular expression of humour, such as China and Japan's exchange of comic stereotypes.

he came to know the ways of life on the outskirts of civilization

and their fates in court

Insects are abundant and mobile biotic organisms that perform essential functions beneficial to humans

Sociologists have too often discounted the role of space in inequality

all of whom harbor some motive—but who could have been driven to murder

This edition of Alice Duer Miller’s Women Are People

Sallis shows that the concept of reason in the Dialectic requires the complicity of imagination

This edition of Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy features a striking new cover design and is reprinted in a readable font

This trans-disciplinary book investigates the forty-year war by the American business class to restore its power and profits

and eight doctoral institutions

Seeing films

and school interactions