Title: Chinese Jokes Through the Ages
Author: Complied and Translated by Lu Yunzhong etc.
ISBN: 9787500118152
Edition: English-Chinese
Publishing Date: 2007-12
Publishing House: China Translation & Publishing Corporation
Cover: P Page: 261 Format: 32mo
Introduction:
This book selects 100 humorous stories of 25 joke collections from the early Sui to the late Qing Dynasty, including among many others Smile Alluring Records written by Hou Bai in the early Sui Dynasty, Laughter Mansion, Laughter Mansion Expanded, and Telling Tales compiled by Feng Menglong, famous writer of the Ming dynasty. The pithy and humorous jokes show in a profile the lifestyle and mentality of Chinese people over the long history. The book includes modern Chinese rendition and annotations besides Chinese text with Pinyin phonetics and English translation.
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