Maoist laughter

Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Study of Laughter in the Mao Era -- Part I. Utopian Laughter -- 1. Laughter, Ethnicity, and Socialist Utopia -- 2. Revolution Plus Love in Village China -- 3. Joking after Rebellion -- Part II. Intermedial Laughter -- 4. Intermedial Laughter -- 5. Fantastic Laughter in a Socialist-Realist Tradition? -- 6. Humor, Vernacularization, and Intermedial Laughter in Maoist Pingtan -- Part III. Laughter and Language -- 7. Propaganda, Play, and the Pictorial Turn -- 8. The Revolutionary Metapragmatics of Laughter in Zhao Shuli's Fiction -- 9. Huajixi, Heteroglossia, and Maoist Language -- 10. Ma Ji's "Ode to Friendship" and the Failures of Revolutionary Language -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.