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The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China by Christopher Rea Details

The Age of Inspiration tells the story of why China's entry into the modern era was not a shock but a noisy one. As the Qing dynasty fell to extinction,…

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The Age of Inspiration tells the story of why China's entry into the modern era was not a shock but a noisy one. As the Qing dynasty fell to extinction, prominent writers gathered jokes in groups he called the history of laughter. "In the early years of the republic, novelists, essayists, and painters alike used comic novels to criticize the new government, but once again, political and cultural debates erupted into folly.

Critics scoffed sarcastically and publicly ridiculed the contestants. In the popular press, where they promoted a culture of practical joke and jester, and eventually, these different expressions of boldness proved to be very offensive - writers who launched a concerted campaign to turn the tone of public discourse, hoping to replace the old forms of ambition with another c "This period from the 1890s to the 1930s has transformed how the Chinese people thought and talked about what is funny, focusing on five cultural expressions of jokes, laughter, play, ridicule and joy," says Christopher Ria.

The spirit of humor reveals the fabric of comedy that has been part of daily life during China's modern era of disrespect. " This new history of laughter not only gives an unprecedented and direct look on the neglected side of Chinese cultural modernity, but it also reveals its permanent heritage in the Chinese language of today's comics and its implications for our understanding of humor as part of human culture..



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