{"product_id":"comic-china-wendy-gan-9781439916292","title":"Comic China: Representing Common Ground, 1890-1945: Representing Common Ground, 1890-1945","description":"\u003cp\u003eWendy Gan's \u003ci\u003eComic China\u003c\/i\u003e investigates the circumstances and motivations of cross-cultural humor. How do works that trade in laughter shape our understanding of Western discourses about China? Is humor meant to be inclusive or exclusive? Does it protect or challenge the status quo? Gan suggests that the simple, straightforward laugh may actually be a far more intricate negotiation of power relations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGan unpacks texts by authors who had little real contact with China as well as writers whose proximity to China influenced their representations. Looking beyond the familiar canon of serious modernist texts and the Yellow Peril classics of popular fiction, Gan analyzes turn-of-the-twentieth-century musical comedies set in the Far East, Ernest Bramah's chinoiserie-inspired tales, and interwar travel writing. She also considers the comic works of the missionary Arthur Henderson Smith, the former Maritime Customs Officer J.O.P. Bland, and the Shanghai journalist and advertising man Carl Crow. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough it includes humor that is less than complimentary to the Chinese, \u003ci\u003eComic China\u003c\/i\u003e reminds us that laughter is tied to our common humanity. Gan navigates the humor used in comic depictions ultimately to find, not superiority or ridicule, but common ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Wendy Gan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1439916292\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781439916292\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Temple University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/25\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 190\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.30w x 0.80d","brand":"Wendy Gan","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065588101375,"sku":"9781439916292","price":64.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e34a06d1-4017-4fb0-ae57-9647154df463.jpg?v=1768675966","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/comic-china-wendy-gan-9781439916292","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}