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Conference Paper: “Isn’t It Funny!” Comic Representations of China, 1880–1945
| Title | “Isn’t It Funny!” Comic Representations of China, 1880–1945 |
|---|---|
| Authors | |
| Issue Date | 2016 |
| Publisher | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. |
| Citation | 2015-16 Fellows Presentation Series. Radcliffe Institute for Advance Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2016 How to Cite? |
| Abstract | The recourse to 'funniness' in the face of alien difference is the starting point of this project. Why do we smile, laugh, or make a joke when confronted with a world that operates differently from what we know and expect? What happens when our idea of the alien other is inflected with laughter? This project is interested in placing under closer scrutiny the uses of humor and its cognates, 'comedy, jokes, the comic anecdote' in literary texts concerned with constructing the Chinese other.
I am looking specifically for a research partner who can translate from German to English. I have two slender volumes in German on an Austrian artist and cartoonist, Friedrich Schiff, who resided in Shanghai in the 1930s. As these texts represent the sole critical output on his work in China, I would need to be able to read them. I would also like the research partner to help track down archival material (if any) on Schiff and his relationship to his long-time China collaborator, Ellen Thorbecke (nee Catleen). |
| Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/257407 |
| DC Field | Value | Language |
|---|---|---|
| dc.contributor.author | Gan, WCH | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-08-02T01:23:09Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2018-08-02T01:23:09Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | - |
| dc.identifier.citation | 2015-16 Fellows Presentation Series. Radcliffe Institute for Advance Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2016 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/257407 | - |
| dc.description.abstract | The recourse to 'funniness' in the face of alien difference is the starting point of this project. Why do we smile, laugh, or make a joke when confronted with a world that operates differently from what we know and expect? What happens when our idea of the alien other is inflected with laughter? This project is interested in placing under closer scrutiny the uses of humor and its cognates, 'comedy, jokes, the comic anecdote' in literary texts concerned with constructing the Chinese other. I am looking specifically for a research partner who can translate from German to English. I have two slender volumes in German on an Austrian artist and cartoonist, Friedrich Schiff, who resided in Shanghai in the 1930s. As these texts represent the sole critical output on his work in China, I would need to be able to read them. I would also like the research partner to help track down archival material (if any) on Schiff and his relationship to his long-time China collaborator, Ellen Thorbecke (nee Catleen). | - |
| dc.language | eng | - |
| dc.publisher | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. | - |
| dc.relation.ispartof | 2015-16 Fellows Presentation Series. Radcliffe Institute for Advance Study, Harvard University | - |
| dc.title | “Isn’t It Funny!” Comic Representations of China, 1880–1945 | - |
| dc.type | Conference_Paper | - |
| dc.identifier.email | Gan, WCH: wchgan@hkucc.hku.hk | - |
| dc.identifier.authority | Gan, WCH=rp01165 | - |
| dc.identifier.hkuros | 259064 | - |
| dc.publisher.place | Cambridge, MA | - |