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Alumni and faculty members who would like to have their books considered for this listing should contact Stacey Himmelberger, editor of Hamilton magazine. This list, which dates back to 2018, is updated periodically with books appearing alphabetically on the date of entry.
Maoist Laughter by Associate Professor of East Asian Languages Zhuoyi Wang (Co-Edited with Ping Zhu and Jason McGrath)
July 1, 2021
Tags Faculty Book
(Hong Kong, China: Hong Kong University Press, 2019)
This book, awarded Choice’s Outstanding Academic Title of 2020, features 10 essays that demonstrate that the connection between laughter and political culture during the Mao years was far more complex than conventional conceptions of communist indoctrination can explain. By examining a variety of genres — including dance, cartoon, children’s literature, comedy, regional oral performance, film, and fiction — the editors uncover many nuanced innovations and experiments with laughter during what has been too often misinterpreted as an unrelentingly bleak period.
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