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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (4): 1042–1067.
Published: 01 November 1998
... at by others. The Treasury of Laughs is a collection of jokes. With all its thirteen chapters, some may still say it's a thin book. If you read it and are delighted by it, please don't be. If you read it and are enraged by it, please don't be. The world from past to present is an immense treasury of laughs...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1998) 57 (4): 947–948.
Published: 01 November 1998
... types of jokes from collections published in earlyseventeenth-century China to explore and expose tensions in late Ming society. Humorous and hyperbolic in tone, the jokes that Hsu considers are of both the comical and satirical kind, the comical jokes poking fun at socially inconsequential matters...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (1): 141–166.
Published: 01 February 2019
... subordinated biopower. One way to see his emphasis on the former over the latter is to look at a speech that he gave on August 3, 2018, in the province of Bukidnon. Making one of his frequent jokes about human rights, he addressed drug users and dealers—what the police refer to as “drug personalities”—directly...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2003) 62 (3): 955–956.
Published: 01 August 2003
... analysis that is accessible to specialists and nonspecialists alike. Hibbett's translations are especially noteworthy. Although he acknowledges the difficulty of translating jokes, he suffers little from this problem himself, weaving into his commentary illustrative excerpts so skillfully rendered...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (1): 218–220.
Published: 01 February 2021
.... These quibbles aside, Merrill reliably demonstrates that listeners and tellers of tales, jokes, and riddles temporarily possess texts in a fluid oscillation; viewed this way, these exchanges emancipate texts from the spatial and temporal order of assumed origination. The story frames have a moral schema...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (3): 654–655.
Published: 01 August 1991
... searches in the Pacific region for shared values such as those that tie together the Arab world, the Organization of American States, and the Atlantic Community. He asks (and answers) all sorts of questions: Do the Pacific peoples eat the same foods? Play the same games? Laugh at the same jokes? Yes, he...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (3): 655–656.
Published: 01 August 1991
... in the Pacific region for shared values such as those that tie together the Arab world, the Organization of American States, and the Atlantic Community. He asks (and answers) all sorts of questions: Do the Pacific peoples eat the same foods? Play the same games? Laugh at the same jokes? Yes, he answers...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1981) 40 (2): 367–368.
Published: 01 February 1981
... places the author uses the numbers found in other works of folktale types (Indie, Jewish, and Japanese). The book is divided into four parts; Animal Tales (nos. 1-299); Ordinary Folktales (nos. 300-1199); Jokes (nos. 1200-1999); Formula Tales (nos. 2000-2399); and Unclassified Tales (nos. 2400-2499...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (1): 304–305.
Published: 01 February 2002
... to accounts of battles and lootings to what might be considered unsavory jokes. At times Mir's commitment to details is astonishing and at other times he appears to be a neglectful recorder of his own life. The readers of Zikr-i Mir become privy to three loci of Mir's life, which were obviously important...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1981) 40 (2): 368–369.
Published: 01 February 1981
... the author uses the numbers found in other works of folktale types (Indie, Jewish, and Japanese). The book is divided into four parts; Animal Tales (nos. 1-299); Ordinary Folktales (nos. 300-1199); Jokes (nos. 1200-1999); Formula Tales (nos. 2000-2399); and Unclassified Tales (nos. 2400-2499). Under Ordinary...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (1): 219–222.
Published: 01 February 2024
... audience. Where the Okinawan angama and the Balinese joke types used in the wayang kulit are waning oral traditional forms, the rakugo appears to have survived into contemporaneity, and thus has bridged tradition and modernity. It is this rationale that Davis appropriates in including the discussion...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (4): 507–512.
Published: 01 August 1964
... of a "Congress of Occidentalists" had the force of whimsical paradox. It was whimsy, but not a joke. It was no joke, first, because China indeed had once been able to conceive the idea of "barbarian experts," much as the modern West conceives of its "China experts"; that was a time when China could still...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1991) 50 (4): 976–978.
Published: 01 November 1991
... operating in a very different social context share with Americans. Kolenda's essay on affinal joking relationships could be a refreshing look at an old topic, with its solid structural analysis of some good, bawdy data. Her careful and illuminating scholarship with respect to sources on South Asian kinship...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (1): 177–179.
Published: 01 February 1999
... of the virago in historical records, satires, jokes, and anecdotes, concentrating on pre-Sung texts. The latter half of the book examines late-Ming and Qing texts, establishing a typology of modes of treatment of the shrewish wife theme: "Condemnation," "Caution and Reform" and "Comedy." The great contribution...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (4): 1041–1043.
Published: 01 November 2000
... of the adage, "A joke explained is no joke." So we begin with pieces such as "when you put it / into his mouth, he can't say a word / a gold coin" (hobaru to nani mo iwarenu no ga koban); "a gift of sea bream / officially noted: 'Uh-huh'" (tai gurai tada un un to goaisatsu); and "it's always needed when...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (1): 302–304.
Published: 01 February 2002
... compilers and teachers for a long time. Most know the legendary poet through his attributes and this book is the authoritative account for us to gauge those attributes. The purview of the book ranges from mystical morals to accounts of battles and lootings to what might be considered unsavory jokes...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (2): 206–217.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of Chinese Classics by Jesuit missionaries—such as the Confucius Sinarum Philosophus of 1687. Defunct languages and jokes aside, we only publish fresh English translations, and before even thinking of including “historical translations,” we will be more than busy publishing scholarly and eminently readable...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2002) 61 (4): 1451.
Published: 01 November 2002
... in Pakistan, India, and the Muslim world. In his public lectures to civic groups and community colleges, and during his twenty-two years of teaching at DePaul University, he fascinated audiences with his experiences, his insight, his stories, and the occasional ribald joke. Apart from these public...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1957) 16 (3): 480.
Published: 01 May 1957
... powers of deduction. Inexplicable shifts of tone, or the exposure in the last paragraph of the whole business as all a practical joke, are going to disturb some readers. The moralizing, the melodramatic dialogue, and the amazing coincidences, however, do give these tales a kind of quaint, old-fashioned...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 44 (4): 893.
Published: 01 August 1985
... of culture heroes, and tricksters through etiologies, novellas, and animal fables, to jokes and children's rigmaroles. This skillful narrator also relates another set of tales distinguished from the former on functional rather than thematic grounds, namely, totem tales (designed to keep the clans marrying...
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