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Download or read book Traditional Chinese comedy written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry W. Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Traditional Chinese Humor written by Henry W. Wells and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jessica Milner Davis
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888083511
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Humour in Chinese Life and Letters written by Jessica Milner Davis and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present study emphasizes Chapter Six of Huai-nan Tzu in expounding the theory of kan-ying STIMULUS-RESPONSE; RESONANCE, which postulates that all things in the universe are interrelated and influence each other according to pre-set patterns.
Author : Ashley Thorpe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Role of the Chou ("clown") in Traditional Chinese Drama written by Ashley Thorpe and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first Western language book to examine the chou ("clown") role-type in traditional Chinese drama--a role-type credited with so much importance that some critics insist that "withouth the chou, there would not be drama." This assertion is evaluated through an analysis of historical documents and translated play texts, fieldwork research, and from the perspectives of ethnomusicology and anthropology.
Author : Xiaoyang Zhang
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780874135367
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare in China written by Xiaoyang Zhang and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 1996 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The value of the book is not limited to the scope of Shakespeare studies and comparative literature. With the combination of the literary criticism and sociological approach, it describes and investigates a variety of social and psychological phenomena in the process of cultural exchange between the West and the East. The book also provides a brief view of the social, political, and historical changes in modern China for Western readers.
Author : Gilbert C. Remillard
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781546305088
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Chinese Blockbuster 4 written by Gilbert C. Remillard and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-11-12 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Blockbuster Approach to Learn Chinese With over 1 billion users, Chinese is the most widely spoken language in the world. Add to that the importance of China in the world economy and you end up with a situation where knowing Chinese gives you a tremendous advantage. This fourth volume follows the comprehensive, fun and pragmatic Chinese Blockbuster approach designed to teach you: How to recall the building blocks that compose both forms of a Chinese character (simplified and traditional) How to remember the various definitions of a character How to memorize the various pronunciations of a character in Mandarin Additional facts concerning the character, such as its frequency of use, its etymology, or its ancient meanings and shapes The details of each character are imprinted in your brain by way of funny, dramatic or true stories, allowing you to remember all aspects of a specific character in one fell swoop. You will effectively learn to recognize and pronounce all the Chinese characters you are bound to see, while being entertained! The Chinese Blockbuster Series goes beyond the 'top few Chinese characters you need to know to get by,' as people too often realize that they don't get anywhere with such a limited number of characters. The Chinese Blockbuster Series is comprehensive and covers what is necessary for you to reach reading fluency in modern Chinese. Click on 'Look inside' to find out more about this fourth book of the series.
Author : Jessica Milner Davis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000591778
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Humour in Asian Cultures written by Jessica Milner Davis and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative book traces the impact of tradition on modern humour across several Asian countries and their cultures. Using examples from Japan, Korea, Indonesia and Chinese cultures in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, the contributors explore the different cultural rules for creating and sharing humour. Humour can be a powerful lubricant when correctly interpreted; mis-interpreted, it is likely to cause considerable setbacks. Over time, it has emerged and submerged in different periods and different forms in all these countries but today’s conventions still reflect traditional attitudes to and assumptions about what is appropriate in creating and using humour. Under close examination, Milner Davis and her colleagues show how forms and conventions that differ from those in the west can also be seen to possess elements in common. With examples including Mencian and other classical texts, Balinese traditional verbal humour, Korean and Taiwanese workplace humour, Japanese laughter ceremonies, performances and cartoons, as well as contemporary Chinese-language films and videos, they engage with a wide range of forms and traditions. This fascinating collection of studies will be of great interest to students and scholars of many Asian cultures, and also to those with a broader interest in humour studies. It highlights the increasing importance of understanding a wider range of cultural values in the present era of globalized communication and the importance of reliable studies of why and how cultures that are geographically related differ in their traditional uses of and assumptions about humour.
Author : Henry W. Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Traditional Chinese Humor written by Henry W. Wells and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gilbert C. Remillard
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781540796523
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (965 download)
Download or read book Chinese Blockbuster written by Gilbert C. Remillard and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, fun and pragmatic method to help you read simplified and traditional Chinese characters and pronounce them in Mandarin! Each character is brought to life through funny and dramatic stories as well as why-didn't-I-think-of-that mnemonics. Its building blocks, definitions and pronunciations are all part of the memorization process, allowing you to remember all aspects of a specific character in one fell swoop. This is the first book of an upcoming series that contains the following key features: Over 4000 characters will be included, a number necessary for reaching reading fluency in modern Chinese. All aspects of a Chinese character are covered: Its simplified and traditional forms The building blocks making up each form Its various definitions Its various pronunciations in Mandarin Its known etymology, ancient meanings and shapes Examples of use Additional information, such as its frequency of use and other fascinating facts The characters are presented in a logical order by prioritizing their frequency of use while considering the building blocks that compose them, the latter being presented first. Also, characters with similar shapes or having a similar role or meaning are kept together, greatly facilitating the learning process. Intuitive, easy to recall mnemonics and funny or sometimes shocking stories that integrate all aspects of a given character are provided for improved retention. The pronunciation and tone of a character are merged into the memorization process by making use of carefully selected sound words that form part of a cleverly designed sound system, one sound word representing one specific pronunciation and tone. Fully illustrated, to help you form images in your brain. Fully indexed, to allow searching a character by its definitions or its pronunciations in pinyin. You will effectively learn to recognize and pronounce virtually all Chinese characters you are bound to come across, while being entertained! Keep an eye out for the next book of the series, to be published soon!
Author : Gilbert C Remillard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781984938831
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (388 download)
Download or read book Chinese Blockbuster 8 written by Gilbert C Remillard and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Blockbuster Approach to Learn Chinese This is Book 8, the last book of the Chinese Blockbuster series! You learned in Book 1 that in Chinese, number 8 has the connotation of abundance, all around, all-encompassing. It is also considered a lucky number by the Chinese people. With Book 8, you now have access to an abundance of Chinese characters (well over 4000 characters, simplified and traditional forms combined) and your knowledge of Chinese is all-encompassing, allowing you to go all around China or the Chinatowns of the world and read everything you see there. You are so lucky! With over 1 billion users, Chinese is the most widely spoken language in the world. Add to that the importance of China in the world economy and you end up with a situation where knowing Chinese gives you a tremendous advantage. This eighth and last volume follows the comprehensive, fun and pragmatic Chinese Blockbuster approach designed to teach you: How to recall the building blocks that compose both forms of a Chinese character (simplified and traditional) How to remember the various definitions of a character How to memorize the various pronunciations of a character in Mandarin Additional facts concerning the character, such as its frequency of use, its etymology, or its ancient meanings and shapes The details of each character are imprinted in your brain by way of funny, dramatic or true stories, allowing you to remember all aspects of a specific character in one fell swoop. You will effectively learn to recognize and pronounce all the Chinese characters you are bound to see, while being entertained! The Chinese Blockbuster series goes beyond the 'top few Chinese characters you need to know to get by, ' as people too often realize that they don't get anywhere with such a limited number of characters. The Chinese Blockbuster series is comprehensive and covers what is necessary for you to reach reading fluency in modern Chinese. Click on 'Look inside' to find out more about this eighth and last book of the series.
Author : Gilbert C Remillard
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781542973601
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (736 download)
Download or read book Chinese Blockbuster 3 written by Gilbert C Remillard and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-18 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Blockbuster Approach to Learn Chinese With over 1 billion users, Chinese is the most widely spoken language in the world. Add to that the importance of China in the world economy and you end up with a situation where knowing Chinese gives you a tremendous advantage. This third volume follows the comprehensive, fun and pragmatic Chinese Blockbuster approach designed to teach you: How to recall the building blocks that compose both forms of a Chinese character (simplified and traditional) How to remember the various definitions of a character How to memorize the various pronunciations of a character in Mandarin Additional facts concerning the character, such as its frequency of use, its etymology, or its ancient meanings and shapes The details of each character are imprinted in your brain by way of funny, dramatic or true stories, allowing you to remember all aspects of a specific character in one fell swoop. You will effectively learn to recognize and pronounce all the Chinese characters you are bound to see, while being entertained! The Chinese Blockbuster Series goes beyond the 'top few Chinese characters you need to know to get by,' as people too often realize that they don't get anywhere with such a limited number of characters. The Chinese Blockbuster Series is comprehensive and covers what is necessary for you to reach reading fluency in modern Chinese. Click on 'Look inside' to find out more about this third book of the series.
Author : Ping Zhu
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888528017
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (885 download)
Download or read book Maoist Laughter written by Ping Zhu and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER — 2020 Choice’s Outstanding Academic Title 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 during what has been too often misinterpreted as an unrelentingly bleak period. In Mao’s China, laughter helped to regulate both political and popular culture and often served as an indicator of shifting values, alliances, and political campaigns. In exploring this phenomenon, Maoist Laughter is a significant correction to conventional depictions of socialist China. “Maoist Laughter brings together prominent scholars of contemporary China to make a timely and original contribution to the burgeoning field of Maoist literature and culture. One of its main strengths lies in the sheer number of genres covered, including dance, traditional Chinese performance, visual arts, film, and literature. The focus on humor in the Maoist period gives an exciting new perspective from which to understand cultural production in twentieth-century China.” —Krista Van Fleit, University of South Carolina “An illuminating study of the culture of laughter in the Maoist period. Focusing on much-neglected topics such as satire, jokes, and humor, this book is an essential contribution to our understanding of how socialist culture actually ‘worked’ as a coherent, dynamic, and constructive life experience. The chapters show that traditional culture could almost blend perfectly with revolutionary mission.” —Xiaomei Chen, University of California, Davis
Author : Li Yu
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231550367
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book A Couple of Soles written by Li Yu and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Couple of Soles is a classic comedic romance by the seventeenth-century playwright Li Yu. Tan Chuyu, a poor young scholar, falls in love with the beautiful actress Liu Miaogu. He joins her family’s acting troupe, and, in plays within the play, romance ensues. After Liu’s family attempts to marry her off to a local country squire, she performs a famous scene in which a heroine drowns herself—and then jumps off the stage into a river, followed by Tan. The local river deity rescues the lovers from death by transforming them into a pair of soles. Li balances their romance with the adventures of a retired upright official involving banditry, bribery, and mistaken identity—and who nets and shelters the two fish when they regain human form. Written at a time when China was beginning to recover from the cataclysmic Ming-Qing dynastic transition, A Couple of Soles displays Li’s biting wit as well as his reflections on the concerns of his age, including the dangers of administrative service and the role of theater in society. The play combines witty wordplay and caustic satire with a strong emphasis on traditional moral values. The first major comedy from late imperial China to appear in English translation, A Couple of Soles provides an unparalleled view of the theater in seventeenth-century China. A general introduction and a detailed appendix shed further light on the play and its context.
Author : Gilbert Remillard
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781984938787
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (387 download)
Download or read book Chinese Blockbuster 6 written by Gilbert Remillard and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Blockbuster Approach to Learn Chinese With over 1 billion users, Chinese is the most widely spoken language in the world. Add to that the importance of China in the world economy and you end up with a situation where knowing Chinese gives you a tremendous advantage. This sixth volume follows the comprehensive, fun and pragmatic Chinese Blockbuster approach designed to teach you: How to recall the building blocks that compose both forms of a Chinese character (simplified and traditional) How to remember the various definitions of a character How to memorize the various pronunciations of a character in Mandarin Additional facts concerning the character, such as its frequency of use, its etymology, or its ancient meanings and shapes The details of each character are imprinted in your brain by way of funny, dramatic or true stories, allowing you to remember all aspects of a specific character in one fell swoop. You will effectively learn to recognize and pronounce all the Chinese characters you are bound to see, while being entertained! The Chinese Blockbuster Series goes beyond the 'top few Chinese characters you need to know to get by,' as people too often realize that they don't get anywhere with such a limited number of characters. The Chinese Blockbuster Series is comprehensive and covers what is necessary for you to reach reading fluency in modern Chinese. Click on 'Look inside' to find out more about this sixth book of the series.
Author : Gilbert C. Remillard
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781542920872
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Chinese Blockbuster 2 written by Gilbert C. Remillard and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Blockbuster Approach to Learn Chinese With over 1 billion users, Chinese is the most widely spoken language in the world. Add to that the importance of China in the world economy and you end up with a situation where knowing Chinese gives you a tremendous advantage. This second volume follows the comprehensive, fun and pragmatic Chinese Blockbuster approach designed to teach you: How to recall the building blocks that compose both forms of a Chinese character (simplified and traditional) How to remember the various definitions of a character How to memorize the various pronunciations of a character in Mandarin Additional facts concerning the character, such as its frequency of use, its etymology, or its ancient meanings and shapes The details of each character are imprinted in your brain by way of funny, dramatic or true stories, allowing you to remember all aspects of a specific character in one fell swoop. You will effectively learn to recognize and pronounce all the Chinese characters you are bound to see, while being entertained! The Chinese Blockbuster Series goes beyond the 'top few Chinese characters you need to know to get by,' as people too often realize that they don't get anywhere with such a limited number of characters. The Chinese Blockbuster Series is comprehensive and covers what is necessary for you to reach reading fluency in modern Chinese. Click on 'Look inside' to find out more about this second book of the series.
Author : Gilbert Remillard
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781979451666
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Chinese Blockbuster 5 written by Gilbert Remillard and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Blockbuster Approach to Learn Chinese With over 1 billion users, Chinese is the most widely spoken language in the world. Add to that the importance of China in the world economy and you end up with a situation where knowing Chinese gives you a tremendous advantage. This fifth volume follows the comprehensive, fun and pragmatic Chinese Blockbuster approach designed to teach you: How to recall the building blocks that compose both forms of a Chinese character (simplified and traditional) How to remember the various definitions of a character How to memorize the various pronunciations of a character in Mandarin Additional facts concerning the character, such as its frequency of use, its etymology, or its ancient meanings and shapes The details of each character are imprinted in your brain by way of funny, dramatic or true stories, allowing you to remember all aspects of a specific character in one fell swoop. You will effectively learn to recognize and pronounce all the Chinese characters you are bound to see, while being entertained! The Chinese Blockbuster Series goes beyond the 'top few Chinese characters you need to know to get by,' as people too often realize that they don't get anywhere with such a limited number of characters. The Chinese Blockbuster Series is comprehensive and covers what is necessary for you to reach reading fluency in modern Chinese. Click on 'Look inside' to find out more about this fifth book of the series.
Author : Fangyi Xu
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811968608
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (119 download)
Download or read book Transformation of Contemporary Film Genre written by Fangyi Xu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first one focusing on Chinese mainstream films from a cross-disciplinary perspective. Based on case studies, it discusses three subgenres of mainland Chinese commercial mainstream films and offers an approach to studying the transformation of Chinese mainstream film within the theoretical frameworks of “genre theory” and “screenwriting method”. It helps professionals understand the genres and narratives of Chinese mainstream films, and also serves as a must-read for non-professionals interested in Chinese cinema.
