MCLC: studies on jokes (3)

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: Magnus Fiskesjo <magnus.fiskesjo at cornell.edu>
Subject: studies on jokes (3)
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Thanks to all who contributed suggestions on jokes! Our student is mostly
into the specifically linguistic and sociolinguistic aspects of how
humorous puns and such things work in living language (see f.ex. Tan Daren
1997 below) but all this is very helpful and interesting. In the spirit of
sharing, I paste below a jumbled list below including all the suggestions
I received both on and off the MCLC list, and including some references
that I had before; 

yrs, Magnus

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Chinese jokes / humor / humour: Bibliography [Compiled March 26, 2013 by
M. Fiskesjö, magnus.fiskesjo at cornell.edu]

Paul Pickowicz, "Political Humor in Postsocialist China: Transnational and
Still Funny." In Perry Link, Dick Madsen and Paul Pickowicz, eds. RESTLESS
CHINA (Roman and Littlefield, 2013).

Jessica Milner Davis and Jocelyn Chey (editors). 2013. Humour in Chinese
Life and Culture: Resistance and Control in Modern Times. Hong Kong: Hong
Kong University Press.
= a Companion Volume to:
Humour in Chinese Life and Letters: Classical and Traditional Approaches
Jocelyn Chey and Jessica Milner Davis (editors). 2011. Hong Kong: Hong
Kong University Press.

Dr. David Moser, has "several excellent articles on cross talk and other
forms of humor. You can find his work by searching the website
www.danwei.org"

A history of laughter: Comic culture in early twentieth-century China.
Author: Christopher Gordon Rea
Dissertation: Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 2008.
OCLC Number: 310502540.

Rea, Christopher G. Comedy and cultural entrepreneurship in Xu Zhuodai's
Huaji Shanghai. Modern Chinese Literature and Culture 20, no.2 (Fall 2008)
p. 40-91. Published in Columbus, OH. ISSN: 1520-9857
Keywords: comic sensibility; comical writer-reader relationship; 'funny'
stories; plagiarism; false advertising; comedic treatment of media themes;
urban mass culture; trickster; playing tricks on the reader

Rea, Christopher G. 'I envy you your new teeth and hair': humor,
self-awareness and Du Fu's poetic self-image. T'ang Studies nos.23-24
(2005-2006) p. 47-89. Published in Boulder, CO. ISSN: 0737-5034
Keywords: self-mockery; poetic modes; effects of advancing age; comic
interlude; self-representation

What a joke. By: Yang, Jiang; Rea, Christopher G., tr.
Renditions no.76 (Fall 2011) p. 34-67. Published in Hong Kong. ISSN:
0377-3515.
Subject: China -- Literature -- Fiction -- Translations

Tan, Daren [谭达人]. 1997. Humor and language humor [幽默与言语幽默].
Beijing: 生活, 读书
, 新知三联书店.

+ there is a chapter in Popular China: Unoffical Culture in a Globalizing
Society by Perry Link and Kate Zhou, about shunkouliu and their political
valences.

(Link also translates a xiangsheng comedy routine in the anthology
Stubborn Weeds).  

+ "For contemporary raw materials: . . . there are a host of published
jokes in mass-market magazines like 读者 (Reader magazine) and 青年文摘
(Youth 
Digest) [. . .] sections of heavily sanitized jokes. Meanwhile, on Weibo
there are many accounts that are mostly jokes: @贱人培训班 is one, but they
change fast."

+ "Rabbits also bite", a cartoon distributed online:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_efbS1qfwQ

+ more political-animal parables:
Hexie Farm series online, http://hexiefarm.wordpress.com/

+ don't forget the humorous tendency for "the Onion satirical newspaper to
be republished as non-satire in papers like the People's Daily. This has
happened a few times. There's a CNN article about it here
(http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/30/world/asia/china-onion-humor-florcruz),
and plenty of other materials on the web."

+ Try searching for "Sars" and "humor".

+ Also this, on how some jokers are harrassed for trying to be funny:
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/29/world/asia/29namu.html
or
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/29/world/asia/29namu.html?_r=1


+ from BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ASIAN STUDIES March 2013 :

Showing 1 - 25 of 25 results for search all fields:chinese humor

The (r)evolution of modern Chinese humor
By: Sample, Joseph
Journal: Chinese Culture 37, no.3 (Sep 1996) p. 87-110
Published in Taipei. ISSN: 0009-4544
Subject: China -- Anthropology & Sociology

Traditional Chinese humor: a study in art and literature
1971. 9, 242p.,
By: Wells, Henry Willis
Publisher: Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press
Subject: China -- Literature

The Chinese sense of humor
By: Hsia, C.T.
Sino-American Relations 11, no.4 (Win 1985) p. 11-21
Published in Hwa Kang, Taiwan. ISSN: 0377-5321

The Chinese sense of humor
By: Hsia, C.T.
Renditions no.9 (Apr 1978) p. 30-36
Published in Hong Kong. ISSN: 0377-3515

The Chinese sense of humor
By: Hsiao, Shi-ching
Annals of the Philippine Chinese Historical Association 8 (1978) p. 80-98.
Published in Manila

Humor in traditional Chinese literature
By: Kao, George
Sino-American Relations 13, no. 3 (Fall 1987) p. 43-50
Published in Hwa Kang, Taiwan. ISSN: 0377-5321
Subject: China -- Literature

Wit and humor
By: Myhre, Karin
Published in: Mair, Victor H., ed. The Columbia history of Chinese
literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. xx, 1342p. , pages
132-148.
Subject: China -- Literature

A pink humor [essay]
By: Hu, Xin; Wu, Hui, tr.
Published in: Wu, Hui, ed. Once iron girls: essays on gender by post-Mao
Chinese literary women. Lanham, Md.; Plymouth, England: Lexington Books,
2010. xiii, 154p. , pages 85-87
Subjects: China -- Anthropology & Sociology -- Women -- Literature

A light touch of the brush: humor in Chinese painting
By: Dickson, Ronald J
Asian and Pacific Quarterly of Cultural and Social Affairs 13, no.1 (Spr
1981) p. 27-39
Published in Seoul. ISSN: 0251-3110
Subject: China -- Arts -- Painting

Humor, history, and postmodernity: exploring contemporary Chinese cinema
By: Gieselmann, Martin
Berliner China-Hefte: Beiträge zur Gesellschaft und Geschichte Chinas 34
(2008) p. 113-129
Published in Berlin.
Keywords: postmodern aesthetic; Lai Shengchuan; Edward Yang; Wong Kar-wai;
Stephen Chian; Jiang Wen; Zhang Yimon; film directors
Subjects: China -- Hong Kong -- Taiwan -- Arts -- Cinema

Humor in discourse: a linguistic study of the Chinese dialect film, Crazy
Stone [examined three levels of humor: linguistic level, societal level,
and the interaction between language and the sociopolitical context]
By: He, Yi
Published in: Chan, Marjorie K.M.; Kang, Hana, eds. Proceedings of the
20th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-20):
dedicated to Professor Edwin G. Pulleyblank in honor of his 85th birthday.
Columbus, Ohio: East Asian Studies Center, Ohio State University, 2008.
xxi, 1075p. , pages 989-998
Keywords: lexical devices; phonetic devices; discourse devices
Subjects: China -- Language -- Linguistics, China -- Arts -- Cinema

Chinese wit & humor; Introd. by Lin Yutang; incl. a translation by Pearl
Buck
1974. 347p.
By: Kao, George, ed.
Publisher: New York, Sterling Pub. Co.:
Subject: China -- Literature

Wit, humor, and satire in early Chinese literature (to A.D.220)
By: Knechtges, David R.
Monumenta Serica 29 ( 1970-1971) p. 79-98
Published in Sankt Augustin, Germany. ISSN: 0254-9948
Subject: China -- Literature

Chinese animal fables of the eighteenth century: translations from Shen
Qifeng's Words of Humor From An Ancient Bell
By: Chan, Leo Tak-hung
Asian Culture Quarterly 23, no.1 (Spr 1995) p. 29-36
Published in Taipei. ISSN: 0378-8911

Humor styles, dispositional optimism, and mental health among
undergraduates in Hong Kong and China
By: Yue, Xiao Dong; Xia, Hao; Goldman, Giovanna Loretta
Journal of Psychology in Chinese Societies 11, no.2 (2010) p. 173-188
Published in Hong Kong. ISSN: 1563-3403
Keywords: university students; Chinese culture

Humorous anecdotes in Chinese historical texts
By: Cohen, Alvin P
Journal of the American Oriental Society 96, no.1 (Jan-Mar 1976) p. 121-124
Published in New Haven, CT. ISSN: 0003-0279
Subject: China -- Literature

Feng Meng-Lung's treasury of laughs: humorous satire on seventeenth
century Chinese culture and society
By: Hsu, Pi-Ching
Journal of Asian Studies 57, no.4 (Nov 1998) p. 1042-1067
Published in Ann Arbor, MI. ISSN: 0021-9118

Redrawing the past: modern presentation of ancient Chinese philosophy in
the cartoons of Tsai Chih-Chung
By: Wei, Shu-chu
Published in: Lent, John A., ed. Illustrating Asia: comics, humor
magazines, and picture books. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001.
249p. , pages 153-170
Subjects: Taiwan -- Arts -- Prints & Drawings. China -- Philosophy &
Religion

Ming-dynasty humorous fables; tr. by Simon Johnstone
By: Jiang, Yingke
Chinese Literature no.4 (Win 1989) p. 124-131
Published in Beijing, ISSN: 0009-4617
Subject: China -- Anthropology & Sociology -- Folklore

Jiang Yingke's humorous fables; tr. by Simon Johnstone
By: Wang, Xuetai
Chinese Literature no.4 (Win 1989) p. 132-135
Published in Beijing, ISSN: 0009-4617
Subject: China -- Anthropology & Sociology -- Folklore

From warlocks to Aryans: the slippery slope of cultural nuance in reading
Harry Potter in Taiwan
By: Moskowitz, Marc L.
Published in: Moskowitz, Marc L., ed. Popular culture in Taiwan:
charismatic modernity. London; New York: Routledge, 2011. xi, 187p.
(Routledge research on Taiwan, 3) , pages 167-180
Keywords: Chinese translation; marketing strategy; localization of Potter;
preadaptation to Harry Potter themes; Western pop culture; traditional and
modern; local and transnational cultures; online fan humor

Justice, morality, and skepticism in Six Dynasties ghost stories [explores
the religious and ethical implications of the ghost stories, in particular
those represented by the zhiguai (anomaly tales)]
By: Poo, Mu-chou
Published in: Chan, Alan K.L.; Lo, Yuet-Keung, eds. Interpretation and
literature in early medieval China. Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press, 2010. vi,
288p. (SUNY studies in Chinese philosophy and culture) , pages 251-273
Keywords: avenging ghosts; administration of justice; revenge; ghostly
intervention in a person's fate; humor

Long-term oral administration of ginseng extract modulates humoral immune
response and spleen cell functions
By: Liou, Chian-Jiun; Huang, Wen-Chung; Tseng, Jerming.
American Journal of Chinese Medicine 33, no.4 (2005) p. 651-661
Published in Garden Hills, NY. ISSN: 0192-415X
Keywords: antibody response; cytokines; T-cell population

While ill, I heard a zekku (quatrain) humorously titled 'Torikai no Arimi,
the Palace Groom Who Wanders About at Night,' written by the middle
captain of the Imperial Bodyguards. I also read some matching poems in the
old style by Fujiwara, Governor of Harima, Supernumerary Officer
Tachibana, and the presented scholar Minamoto, and I felt by turns moved
and grieved. I then wrote the kyōka (crazy verse) that folows; A poem
satirizing the efforts of 'lofty phoenix' to blur the distinctions between
noble and lowly
By: Minamoto no Shitagō; Rabinovitch, Judith N.; Bradstock, Timothy R.,
trs.
Published in: Rabinovitch, Judith N.; Bradstock, Timothy R., trs. and eds.
Dance of the butterflies: Chinese poetry from the Japanese court
tradition. Ithaca, N.Y.: East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2005.
xxvi, 278p. , pages 175-178.
Subject: Japan -- Literature -- Poetry -- Translations

Expressing my feelings at the ferry crossing; My feelings upon arriving at
Ashiya ford; A poem written while passing Yamashika no Misaki; An
impromptu poem written upon arriving at Dannoura in Nagato Province; A
humorous poem about life on the boat, written while moored at port; A
melancholy poem written after arriving in Hajikaminotomari; Expresing my
thoughts after arriving at Akasaki in Aki Province; A poem on what I saw
while staying at Michikuchi no Tsu; A poem written early in the day while
passing through Kōnoura; An impromptu poem written at Muro
By:
Priest Renzen; Rabinovitch, Judith N.; Bradstock, Timothy R., trs.
Published in:
Rabinovitch, Judith N.; Bradstock, Timothy R., trs. and eds. Dance of the
butterflies: Chinese poetry from the Japanese court tradition. Ithaca,
N.Y.: East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2005. xxvi, 278p. , pages
211-217
Subject: Japan -- Literature -- Poetry -- Translations


+ Showing 1 - 11 of 11 results for search all fields:chinese humour

Classical Chinese humour
By: Kowallis, Jon, tr.
Chinese Literature no.1 (Spr 1985) p. 194-200
Published in Beijing. ISSN: 0009-4617
Subject: China -- Literature

An anthology of Chinese humour
1987. 203p
By: Tao, Yin
Hong Kong: Joint
Subject: China -- Literature

Chinese black humour
By: Uimonen, Terho
Orientaliska Studier no.66 (Oct 1989) p. 47-49
Published in Stockholm. ISSN: 0345-8997
Subject: China -- General & Miscellaneous

Red Humour (Hongse youmo) [artist group]
By: Welsh, Eduardo
Published in: Davis, Edward L., ed. Encyclopedia of contemporary Chinese
culture. London; New York: Routledge, 2005. xxxiv, 786p. , pages 503
Subject: China -- Arts

Humour, satire and parody in Zhang Tianyi's writing
By: Sun, Yifeng
Chinese Culture 40, no.2 (Jun 1999) p. 1-44
Published in Taipei, ISSN: 0009-4544
Subject: China -- Literature -- Fiction -- Studies & Criticism

Satire and humour from a Chinese cartoonist's brush: selected cartoons of
Hua Junwu, 1983-1989
1991. 276p
By: Hua, Chun-wu; Yang, Gladys, tr.
Publisher: Beijing: China Today
Subject: China -- Arts -- Prints & Drawings

Laughter across the Great Wall: a comparison of Chinese and Western humour
By: Waters, Dan
Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 38
(1998-1999) p. 1-50
Published in Hong Kong. ISSN: 0085-5774
Subject: China -- Anthropology & Sociology

Realism, intertextuality and humour in Tsai Ming-liang's Goodbye, Dragon
Inn.
By: Wood, Chris
Journal of Chinese Cinemas 1, no.2 (2007) p. 105-116
Published in Bristol, England. ISSN: 1750-8061
Keywords: realism; Chinese cinema
Subject: Taiwan -- Arts -- Cinema

An ethnic dance drama full of humour; tr. by Niu Jin
By: Peng, Wanting; Liu, Junli
Chinese Literature no.4 (Win 1995) p. 184-191
Published in Beijing. ISSN: 0009-4617
Subject: China -- Arts -- Dance

The spectrum of accessibility: types of humour in the The Destinies of the
Flowers in the Mirror
By: Elvin, Mark
Published in: Ames, Roger T.; Chan, Sin-wai; Ng, Mau-sang, eds.
Interpreting culture through translation: a festschrift for D.C. Lau. Hong
Kong: Chinese UP, 1991. 290p. , pages 101-117
Subject: China -- Literature -- Fiction -- Studies & Criticism

A survey of Chinese and German family jokes
By: Cui, Peiling
Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia 39-40, pt.1 (2007-2008) p.
135-152
Published in Canberra. ISSN: 0030-5340
Keywords: humour; family structures; family values; situations; targets;
script oppositions
Subject: China -- Anthropology & Sociology -- Social Structure -- Family


+ Showing 1 - 7 of 7 results for search all fields:chinese jokes

Some preliminary notes on Chinese jokes and cartoons
By: Harbsmeier, Christoph
Published in: Arendrup, Birthe; Thogersen, Carsten Boyer;
Wedell-Wedellsborg, Anne, eds. China in the 1980s-and beyond. London:
Curzon Press; Copenhagen: SIAS, 1986. 175p. , pages 30-77
Subject: China -- General & Miscellaneous

Jokes
By: Mair, Victor H., tr.
Published in: Mair, Victor H., ed. The Columbia anthology of traditional
Chinese literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. xxxvii,
1335p. (Translations from the Asian classics) , pages 658-670
Subject: China -- Literature

On jokes
By: Bian, Ji; Wu, Ling, tr.
Chinese Literature no.1 (Spr 1985) p. 201-202
Published in Beijing. ISSN: 0009-4617
Subject: China -- Literature

Political jokes
By: Wu, Helen Xiaoyan
Published in: Davis, Edward L., ed. Encyclopedia of contemporary Chinese
culture. London; New York: Routledge, 2005. xxxiv, 786p. , pages 474
Subject: China -- Politics & Government

Political jokes mock Chinese leadership
By: Hood, Marlowe
Published in: Sullivan, Lawrence R., ed. China since Tiananmen: political,
economic, and social conflicts. Armonk, N.Y.; London: M.E. Sharpe, 1995.
331p. , pages 107-109
Subject: China -- Politics & Government

A survey of Chinese and German family jokes
By: Cui, Peiling
Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia 39-40, pt.1 (2007-2008) p.
135-152.
Published in Canberra. ISSN: 0030-5340
Keywords: humour; family structures; family values; situations; targets;
script oppositions
Subject: China -- Anthropology & Sociology -- Social Structure -- Family

To send to Tu Fu as a joke [Li Po (701-762)]
By: Li, Po; Eide, Elling, tr.
Published in: Mair, Victor H., ed. The Columbia anthology of traditional
Chinese literature. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. xxxvii,
1335p. (Translations from the Asian classics) , pages 203
Subject: China -- Literature -- Poetry -- Translations


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