Book review. Gan, Wendy (2018). Comic China: Representing Common Ground, 1890-1945. Philadelphia: Temple University Press; and Tam, King-fai and Sharon Wesoky (2018). Not Just a Laughing Matter: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Political Humour in China. Singapore: Springer.

• Main Author: Jocelyn Valerie Chey
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies 2019-11-01
• Series: The European Journal of Humour Research
• Subjects: China; Hong Kong; cross-cultural communication; cartoons; Internet humour; political jokes
• Online Access: https://www.europeanjournalofhumour.org/ejhr/article/view/323
• ISSN: 2307-700X

This review covers two new books on Chinese humour: Wendy Gan Comic China: Representing Common Ground, 1890-1945; and King-fai Tam and Sharon Wesoky Not Just a Laughing Matter: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Political Humour in China. Gan argues that humour can moderate extreme views through sympathetic understanding of the other.  Tam and Wesoky cover several aspects of mainland Chinese and Hong Kong humour usage through edited papers from a recent conference.