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

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 o...

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Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Emotions and states of mind in East Asia ; 5
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill.
c2015.
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Emotions and States of Mind in East Asia 5.
Physical Description:1 online resource (370 p.)
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of 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.