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Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Quips from a Chinese Jest-book written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Quips from a Chinese Jest-book written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pi-ching Hsu
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900429323X
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Feng Menglong's Treasury of Laughs written by Pi-ching Hsu and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 sectors of human societies and institutions. Hsu Pi-ching reconstructs the complete Ming Chinese original with meticulous editorial work, in modern punctuated typesetting, and provides the only complete English translation available, with useful footnotes on word plays, literary allusions, and historical background. Readers should find the introductory essays on the connections between humour and emotions/states of mind particularly illuminating.
Author : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 872 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Among Our Books written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur Probsthain
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Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Encyclopaedia of Books on China written by Arthur Probsthain and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : W. Heffer & Sons
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Catalogue written by W. Heffer & Sons and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Orientalia written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lauren Weber
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 031608204X
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)
Download or read book In CHEAP We Trust written by Lauren Weber and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2009-09-07 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cheap suit. Cheap date. Cheap shot. It's a dirty word, an epithet laden with negative meanings. It is also the story of Lauren Weber's life. As a child, she resented her father for keeping the heat at 50 degrees through the frigid New England winters and rarely using his car's turn signals-to keep them from burning out. But as an adult, when she found herself walking 30 blocks to save $2 on subway fare, she realized she had turned into him. In this lively treatise on the virtues of being cheap, Weber explores provocative questions about Americans' conflicted relationship with consumption and frugality. Why do we ridicule people who save money? Where's the boundary between thrift and miserliness? Is thrift a virtue or a vice during a recession? And was it common sense or obsessive-compulsive disorder that made her father ration the family's toilet paper? In answering these questions, In Cheap We Trust offers a colorful ride through the history of frugality in the United States. Readers will learn the stories behind Ben Franklin and his famous maxims, Hetty Green (named "the world's greatest miser" by the Guinness Book of Records) and the stereotyping of Jewish and Chinese immigrants as cheap. Weber also explores contemporary expressions and dilemmas of thrift. From Dumpster-diving to economist John Maynard Keynes's "Paradox of Thrift" to today's recession-driven enthusiasm for frugal living, In Cheap We Trust teases out the meanings of cheapness and examines the wisdom and pleasures of not spending every last penny.
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Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Luzac's Oriental List and Book Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : august house
ISBN 13 : 9780874835847
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (358 download)
Download or read book Noodlehead Stories written by and published by august house. This book was released on 2000 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of humorous folktales from around the world share one common feature: the character of a fool.
Author : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co
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Total Pages : 1236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Trübner's Bibliographical Catalogues written by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dulau & Co., ltd., Booksellers, London
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Catalogue written by Dulau & Co., ltd., Booksellers, London and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sampson Low
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1900 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The English Catalogue of Books written by Sampson Low and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
Author : Christopher Rea
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520283848
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Age of Irreverence written by Christopher Rea and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Age of Irreverence tells the story of why ChinaÕs entry into the modern age was not just traumatic, but uproarious. As the Qing dynasty slumped toward extinction, prominent writers compiled jokes into collections they called Òhistories of laughter.Ó In the first years of the Republic, novelists, essayists and illustrators alike used humorous allegories to make veiled critiques of the new government. But, again and again, political and cultural discussion erupted into invective, as critics gleefully jeered and derided rivals in public. Farceurs drew followings in the popular press, promoting a culture of practical joking and buffoonery. Eventually, these various expressions of hilarity proved so offensive to high-brow writers that they launched a concerted campaign to transform the tone of public discourse, hoping to displace the old forms of mirth with a new one they called youmo (humor). Christopher Rea argues that this periodÑfrom the 1890s to the 1930sÑtransformed how Chinese people thought and talked about what is funny. Focusing on five cultural expressions of laughterÑjokes, play, mockery, farce, and humorÑhe reveals the textures of comedy that were a part of everyday life during modern ChinaÕs first Òage of irreverence.Ó This new history of laughter not only offers an unprecedented and up-close look at a neglected facet of Chinese cultural modernity, but also reveals its lasting legacy in the Chinese language of the comic today and its implications for our understanding of humor as a part of human culture.
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Total Pages : 902 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book Journal of the North-China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society for the Year written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book China Journal of Science and Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Huston Finley
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 826 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Nelson's Perpetual Loose-leaf Encyclopædia written by John Huston Finley and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
