China's Chaplin: Comic Stories and Farces by Xu Zhuodai

by Christopher Rea and Zhuodai Xu

Hoaxes Jokes Farces and fun China's Chaplin introduces the imagination of Xu Zhuodai (1880-1958), a comic dynamo who made Shanghai laugh through the tumultuous decades of the pre-Mao era. Xu was a popular and prolific literary humorist who styled himself variously as Master of the Broken Chamberpot Studio, Dr. Split-Crotch Pants, Dr. Hairy Li, and Old Man Soy Sauce. He was also an entrepreneur who founded gymnastics academies, theater...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1939161045
• ISBN13: 9781939161048
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher