Oriental Humour

Author : Xiaodong Yue
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781315412436

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Humor and Chinese Culture by Xiaodong Yue Pdf

This book addresses psychological studies of humour in Chinese societies. It starts by reviewing how the concept of humour evolves in Chinese history, and how it is perceived by Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism respectively. It then compares differences in the Western and the Chinese perceptions of humor and discusses empirical studies that were conducted to examine such differences. It also discusses the cultural origin and empirical evidence of the Chinese ambivalence about humor and presents empirical findings that illustrate its existence. Having done these, it proceeds to discuss psychological studies that examine how humour is related to various demographic, dispositional variables as well as how humour is related to creativity in Chinese societies. It also discusses how humour is related to emotional expressions and mental health in Chinese society as well. It concludes with a discussion on how workplace humor is reflected and developed in Chinese contexts. Taken together, this book attempts to bring together the theoretical propositions, empirical studies, and cultural analyses of humor in Chinese societies.

Author : Jessica Davis Milner,Jocelyn Chey
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789888139231

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Humour in Chinese Life and Culture by Jessica Davis Milner,Jocelyn Chey Pdf

This book investigates the use of humor in the public sphere and in personal life in China. The contributors cover modern and contemporary forms -- comic films and novels, cartooning, pop-songs, internet jokes, and humor in advertising and education. The second of two multidisciplinary volumes designed for the general reader as well as academic audiences, the book explores the relationship between political control and popular expression of humor, including the mutual exchange of comic stereotypes between China and Japan, and draws out important methodological implications for psychological and cross-cultural studies of humor.

Author : Reginald Horace Blyth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Caricatures and cartoons
ISBN : IND:30000061588228

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Oriental Humour by Reginald Horace Blyth Pdf

Author : Jessica Milner Davis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000591774

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Humour in Asian Cultures by Jessica Milner Davis Pdf

This innovative book traces the impact of tradition on modern humour across several Asian countries and their cultures. Using examples from Japan, Korea, Indonesia and Chinese cultures in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, the contributors explore the different cultural rules for creating and sharing humour. Humour can be a powerful lubricant when correctly interpreted; mis-interpreted, it is likely to cause considerable setbacks. Over time, it has emerged and submerged in different periods and different forms in all these countries but today’s conventions still reflect traditional attitudes to and assumptions about what is appropriate in creating and using humour. Under close examination, Milner Davis and her colleagues show how forms and conventions that differ from those in the west can also be seen to possess elements in common. With examples including Mencian and other classical texts, Balinese traditional verbal humour, Korean and Taiwanese workplace humour, Japanese laughter ceremonies, performances and cartoons, as well as contemporary Chinese-language films and videos, they engage with a wide range of forms and traditions. This fascinating collection of studies will be of great interest to students and scholars of many Asian cultures, and also to those with a broader interest in humour studies. It highlights the increasing importance of understanding a wider range of cultural values in the present era of globalized communication and the importance of reliable studies of why and how cultures that are geographically related differ in their traditional uses of and assumptions about humour.

Author : Antony J. Chapman,Hugh C. Foot
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781483158259

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It's a Funny Thing, Humour by Antony J. Chapman,Hugh C. Foot Pdf

It's a Funny Thing, Humour contains the papers presented at the International Conference on Humor and Laughter, held in Cardiff in July 1976. The symposium provides a platform from which authors from different professional and personal background can talk about their own definition and analysis of humor. The book is structured into 10 main sections that reflect the structure of the conference and presents various studies and research on the nature of humor and laughter. Contributions range from theoretical discussions to practical and experimental expositions. Topics on the psychoanalytical theory of humor and laughter; the nature and analysis of jokes; cross-cultural research of humor; mirth measurement; and humor as a tool of learning are some of the topics covered in the symposium. Psychologists, sociologists, teachers, communication experts, psychiatrists, and people who are curious to know more about humor and laughter will find the book very interesting and highly amusing.

Author : Jessica Milner Davis,Jocelyn Chey
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789888083510

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Humour in Chinese Life and Letters by Jessica Milner Davis,Jocelyn Chey Pdf

The present study emphasizes Chapter Six of Huai-nan Tzu in expounding the theory of kan-ying STIMULUS-RESPONSE; RESONANCE, which postulates that all things in the universe are interrelated and influence each other according to pre-set patterns.

Author : Reginald Horace Blyth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Oriental Wit and Humour
ISBN : OCLC:220481931

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Oriental Humour by Reginald Horace Blyth Pdf

Author : Oriental Society of Australia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Asia
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132140919

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The Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia by Oriental Society of Australia Pdf

Author : Marcin Kuczok,Anna Stwora,Mariola Świerkot
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527543300

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Explorations in Humor Studies by Marcin Kuczok,Anna Stwora,Mariola Świerkot Pdf

Working towards a multifaceted debate on humor and related phenomena, this book is a comprehensive reflection of the contributors’ shared interest in various dimensions of humor and its manifold applications. It is composed of a selection of writings that provide important insights into language used for humorous purposes. Theoretical discussions are complemented by an assortment of case studies in linguistics, culture, literature, and translation, as well as in visual and media studies.

Author : Leonard Feinberg
Publisher : Weatherhill, Incorporated
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Oriental wit and humor
ISBN : UOM:39015008700158

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Asian Laughter by Leonard Feinberg Pdf

A collection of short stories, essays, anecdotes, poems, and plays representing two thousand years of wit and humor in China, Japan, India, and Ceylon.

Author : Jessica Milner Davis
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0814331653

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Understanding Humor in Japan by Jessica Milner Davis Pdf

A comprehensive look at the customary differences between humor in Japan and the West, providing cultural examples and illustrative terminology in the original Japanese.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924066403563

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Calcutta Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 970 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : India
ISBN : UCAL:B2994249

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The Calcutta Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lydia B. Amir
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438449388

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Humor and the Good Life in Modern Philosophy by Lydia B. Amir Pdf

By exploring the works of both Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury, and Søren Kierkegaard, Lydia B. Amir finds a rich tapestry of ideas about the comic, the tragic, humor, and related concepts such as irony, ridicule, and wit. Amir focuses chiefly on these two thinkers, but she also includes Johann Georg Hamann, an influence of Kierkegaard's who was himself influenced by Shaftesbury. All three thinkers were devout Christians but were intensely critical of the organized Christianity of their milieux, and humor played an important role in their responses. The author examines the epistemological, ethical, and religious roles of humor in their philosophies and proposes a secular philosophy of humor in which humor helps attain the philosophic ideals of self-knowledge, truth, rationality, virtue, and wisdom.

Author : William H. Nienhauser
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 1108 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0253329833

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The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature by William H. Nienhauser Pdf

"A vertitable feast of concise, useful, reliable, and up-to-dateinformation (all prepared by top scholars in the field), Nienhauser's now two-volumetitle stands alone as THE standard reference work for the study of traditionalChinese literature. Nothing like it has ever been published." --Choice The second volume to The Indiana Companion to TraditionalChinese Literature is both a supplement and an update to the original volume. VolumeII includes over 60 new entries on famous writers, works, and genres of traditionalChinese literature, followed by an extensive bibliographic update (1985-1997) ofeditions, translations, and studies (primarily in English, Chinese, Japanese, French, and German) for the 500+ entries of Volume I.