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Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Acknowledgments viii
5. Introduction: The Study of Laughter in the Mao Era 1
6. Part I: Utopian Laughter
7. 1. Laughter, Ethnicity, and Socialist Utopia: Five Golden Flowers 17
8. 2. Revolution Plus Love in Village China: Land Reform as Political Romance in Sanliwan Village 37
9. 3. Joking after Rebellion: Performing Tibetan-Han Relations in the Chinese Military Dance “Laundry Song” (1964) 54
10. Part II: Intermedial Laughter
11. 4. Intermedial Laughter: Hou Baolin and Xiangsheng Dianying in Mid-1950s China 71
12. 5. Fantastic Laughter in a Socialist-Realist Tradition? The Nuances of “Satire” and “Extolment” in The Secret of the Magic Gourd and Its 1963 Film Adaptation 89
13. 6. Humor, Vernacularization, and Intermedial Laughter in Maoist Pingtan 105
14. Part III: Laughter and Language
15. 7. Propaganda, Play, and the Pictorial Turn: Cartoon (Manhua Yuekan), 1950–1952 121
16. 8. The Revolutionary Metapragmatics of Laughter in Zhao Shuli's Fiction 147
17. 9. Huajixi, Heteroglossia, and Maoist Language 162
18. 10. Ma Ji's “Ode to Friendship” and the Failures of Revolutionary Language 179
19. Bibliography 197
20. Contributors 216
21. Index 219