Feng Menglong's Treasury of Laughs : a seventeenth-century anthology of traditional Chinese humour

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

In Treasury of Laughs Hsu Pi-ching reconstructs the Chinese original and provides the only complete annotated English translation of Feng Menglong's Xiaofu, a 17th-century anthology of traditional Chinese humour with rich historical, linguistic, psychological, and anthropological connotations.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hsu, Pi-Ching (Author)
Other Authors: Feng, Menglong, 1574-1646
Format: eBook
Language:English
Chinese
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
Series:Emotions and states of mind in East Asia ; 5.
Subjects:
Feng, Menglong, > 1574-1646. > Xiao fu.
Xiao fu (Feng, Menglong)
Chinese wit and humor.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Asian > General.
Chinese wit and humor
Übersetzung
Chinesisch
Witz
Anekdote
Humor
Mingdynastie
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Treasury of Laughs
  • Feng Menglong's Preface
  • Age-Old Envy
  • Rotten Scholars
  • The Untouchables
  • Occultism and Medicine
  • Various Vocations
  • Extraordinary Faculties
  • Petty Sport
  • Mocking Vulgarity
  • Air of Sexually Sophisticated Women
  • Body Parts
  • Funny Mistakes
  • Daily Necessities
  • Intercalary Words.

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