Maoist laughter

"During the Mao years, laughter in China was serious business. Simultaneously an outlet for frustrations and grievances, a vehicle for socialist education, and an object of official study, laughter brought together the political, the personal, the aesthetic, the ethical, the affective, the phys...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Ping, Zhu (-), Wang, Zhuoyi, 1974-, McGrath, Jason, 1966-
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press [2019]
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the study of laughter in the Mao era / Ping Zhu
  • Part 1: Utopian laughter. Laughter, ethnicity, and socialist utopia : Five golden flowers / Ban Wang
  • Revolution plus love in village China : land reform as political romance in Sanliwan Village / Charles A. Laughlin
  • Joking after rebellion : performing Tibetan-Han relations in the Chinese military dance "Laundry song" (1964) / Emily Wilcox
  • Part 2: Intermedial laughter. Intermedial laughter : Hou Baolin and Xiangsheng Dianying in mid-1950s China / Xiaoning Lu
  • Fantastic laughter in a socialist-realist tradition? : the nuances of "satire" and "extolment" in The secret of the magic gourd and its 1963 film adaptation / Yun Zhu
  • Humor, vernacularization, and intermedial laughter in Maoist Pingtan / Li Guo
  • Part 3: Laughter and language. Propaganda, play, and the pictorial turn : Cartoon (Manhua Yuekan), 1950-1952 / John A. Crespi
  • The revolutionary metapragmatics of laughter in Zhao Shuli's fiction / Roy Chan
  • Huajixi, heteroglossia, and Maoist language / Ping Zhu
  • Ma Ji's "Ode to friendship" and the failures of revolutionary language / Laurence Coderre.