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 physical,...

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Other Authors: Ping, Zhu (Editor, Contributor), Wang, Zhuoyi, 1974- (Editor), McGrath, Jason, 1966- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2019]
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505 0 |t Introduction : the study of laughter in the Mao era /  |r Ping Zhu --  |g Part 1: Utopian laughter.  |t Laughter, ethnicity, and socialist utopia : Five golden flowers /  |r Ban Wang --  |t Revolution plus love in village China : land reform as political romance in Sanliwan Village /  |r Charles A. Laughlin --  |t Joking after rebellion : performing Tibetan-Han relations in the Chinese military dance "Laundry song" (1964) /  |r Emily Wilcox --  |g Part 2: Intermedial laughter.  |t Intermedial laughter : Hou Baolin and Xiangsheng Dianying in mid-1950s China /  |r Xiaoning Lu --  |t 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 /  |r Yun Zhu --  |t Humor, vernacularization, and intermedial laughter in Maoist Pingtan /  |r Li Guo --  |g Part 3: Laughter and language.  |t Propaganda, play, and the pictorial turn : Cartoon (Manhua Yuekan), 1950-1952 /  |r John A. Crespi --  |t The revolutionary metapragmatics of laughter in Zhao Shuli's fiction /  |r Roy Chan --  |t Huajixi, heteroglossia, and Maoist language /  |r Ping Zhu --  |t Ma Ji's "Ode to friendship" and the failures of revolutionary language /  |r Laurence Coderre. 
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