A Study on the History of Modern Chinese Comedy

Author: Zhang Jian
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: The comedy issue has always been a weak area in Chinese literary research. Addressing this academic status, this book employs a multidisciplinary comprehensive research method, combining macro and micro perspectives, to explore the occurrence, development, and evolution of modern Chinese comedy in a comprehensive and in-depth manner. It uncovers many rare historical materials, studies numerous overlooked works, and proposes a series of original insights. The main body of the book is divided into five parts: Part I offers a holistic reflection on the concepts of modern Chinese comedy; Part II focuses on examining the intellectualization, socialization, and heroization of modern Chinese humorous comedy; Part III delves into the historical characteristics of modern Chinese satirical comedy in three stages: allegorical ethical satire, realistic social satire, and composite political satire; Part IV provides case analyses of the comedic creations of representative writers such as Ding Xilin, Li Jianwu, and Chen Baichen; Part V explores the overall features, significance, and achievements of modern Chinese comedy.