During the Mao years, laughter in China was serious business. Simultaneously an outlet for frustrations and grievances, a vehicle for socialist education, and an object of official study, laughter bro
Most theories of laughter do not begin with laughter but with the laughable object, Variously conceived of as the comic, the humorous, the grotesque, the ridiculous, or the ludicrous. In Laughter, Anc
This series is designed to bring to North American readers the once-unheard voices of writers who have achieved wide acclaim at home, but are not recognized beyond the borders of their native lands. W
