Feng Menglong's Treasury of Laughs: A Seventeenth-Century Anthology of Traditional Chinese Humour

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The Treasury of Laughs is a treasure house for students of literature, psycholinguistics, history, sociology, and cultural anthropology. Feng Menglong systematically collected and edited 700-odd humourous skits that presented the entire spectrum of traditional Chinese jokes, and wrote commentaries of great philosophical insight. The anthology offers satirical caricatures of human follies from the cradle to the grave and reveals tension in all...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:9004293221

ISBN13:9789004293229

Release Date:April 2015

Publisher:Brill

Length:370 Pages

Weight:1.55 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"

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