The age of irreverence : : a new history of laughter in China / / Christopher Rea.
"The Age of Irreverence tells the story of why China's entry into the modern age was not just traumatic, but uproarious. As the Qing dynasty slumped toward extinction, prominent writers compiled jokes into collections they called "histories of laughter." During the first years of...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Oakland, California : : University of California Press,, [2015] 2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 pages) :; illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Breaking into laughter
- Jokes
- Play
- Mockery
- Farce
- The invention of humor.