Humour in Chinese Life and Culture

This volume covers modern and contemporary forms of humor in China's public and private spheres, including comic films and novels, cartooning, pop-songs, internet jokes, and advertising and educational humor. The second of two multidisciplinary volumes, this text explores the relationship between the political control and popular expression of humor, such as China and Japan's exchange of comic stereotypes, and advances the methodology of psychological and crosscultural humor studies.