Maoist laughter
by McGrath, Jason Ping, Zhu Wang, Zhuoyi
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, the aural, and the visual. The ten essays in Maoist Laughter convincingly demonstrate that the connection between laughter and political culture was far more complex than conventional conceptions of …
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- Full title :Maoist laughter / edited by Ping Zhu, Zhuoyi Wang, and Jason McGrath.
Summary
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, the aural, and the visual. The ten essays in Maoist Laughter convincingly demonstrate that the connection between laughter and political culture was far more complex than conventional conceptions of communist indoctrination can explain. Their sophisticated readings of a variety of genres-including dance, cartoon, children's literature, comedy, regional oral performance, film, and fiction-uncover many nuanced innovations and experiments with laughter.
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- Publication Date:2020.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):HKU Press
- Place of Publication:Hong Kong
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2020.
Notes
Previously issued in print: 2019.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (232 pages) : : illustrations (black and white).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9789882204508, 9882204503
- oclc:on1155500391
- LC Classification:DS777.6
- Dewey Decimal:951.05
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