Feng Menglong's Treasury of Laughs: A Seventeenth-Century Anthology of Traditional Chinese Humour

by Hsu Pi-ching and Feng Menglong

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004293221
• ISBN13: 9789004293229
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"