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Pages: 268
Authors: Jessica Milner Davis
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Wayne State University Press

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A comprehensive look at the customary differences between humor in Japan and the West, providing cultural examples and illustrative terminology in the original
Japanese Humour
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: M. Wells
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-06-18 - Publisher: Springer

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This is not a book of jokes. It is about how people make rules about humour: rules about what humour is, what it is not, what it should and should not be, when
Japanese Humour
Language: en
Pages: 196
Authors: M. Wells
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-06-18 - Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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This is not a book of jokes. It is about how people make rules about humour: rules about what humour is, what it is not, what it should and should not be, when
The Chrysanthemum and the Fish
Language: en
Pages: 236
Authors: Howard Hibbett
Categories: Japan
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Kodansha

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Filled with anecdotes and episodes from modern Japanese cultural history,his is a lively social history of Japanese humour since the 16th century. Itttempts to
Humour in Asian Cultures
Language: en
Pages: 359
Authors: Jessica Milner Davis
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-06-30 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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This innovative book traces the impact of tradition on modern humour across several Asian countries and their cultures. Using examples from Japan, Korea, Indone