Feng Menglong's Treasury of Laughs: A Seventeenth-Century Anthology of Traditional Chinese Humour (Emotions and States of Mind in East Asia, 5) (English and Chinese Edition) - Hardcover

Hsu, Pi-Ching

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004293221 ISBN 13: 9789004293229

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2015

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Hsu Pi-ching, Ph.D. (1994), University of Minnesota, is Professor of History at San Francisco State University. Her publications explore the juncture of history and literature, including Beyond Eroticism: A Historian's Reading of Humor in Feng Menglong's Child's Folly.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 9004293221
• ISBN 13: 9789004293229
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 358