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SUMMARY: Laughing in the Year of the Chicken: The Past and Future of Chines
 e Humor
DESCRIPTION: Cock-a-doodle doo! Chinese comedians should have a lot to crow
  about during the Year of the Rooster. But should we expect Chinese humor i
 n 2017 to be defined by wit\, satire\, parody\, farce\, or just cockiness? 
 Come hear a practicing comedian swap perspectives with a cultural historian
  on the past\, present\, and future of Chinese […]
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 e-full" src="https://sppga.cms.arts.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2017/
 01/chicken.png" width="1042" height="579" /></p><p><em>Cock-a-doodle doo! <
 /em>Chinese comedians should have a lot to crow about during the Year of th
 e Rooster. But should we expect Chinese humor in 2017 to be defined by wit\
 , satire\, parody\, farce\, or just cockiness? Come hear a practicing comed
 ian swap perspectives with a cultural historian on the past\, present\, and
  future of Chinese humor. <strong>Jesse Appell</strong>\, founder of Laugh 
 Beijing\, and <strong>Christopher Rea</strong>\, author of a history of lau
 ghter in China\, will share examples of their favorite types of modern Chin
 ese humor\, and their experiences with Chinese humor in the club\, on the s
 treet\, and in the archive.</p><p> </p><p><img class="alignleft " src="http
 ://asia.ubc.ca/files/2017/01/bbb.jpg" width="455" height="135" /></p><p><st
 rong>Jesse Appell</strong> is a Chinese-English bilingual comedian based in
  Beijing. His comic performances in clubs\, on television\, and in videos s
 uch as “Laowai Style” have been viewed by millions and been reported on by 
 PBS\, NPR\, <em>The Economist</em>\, China Radio International\, and <em>Pe
 ople’s Daily</em>. Some of his work can be viewed at <strong>http://www.lau
 ghbeijing.com/sketches/</strong></p><p><strong>Christopher Rea</strong> is 
 an associate professor of Asian studies at UBC and the author of <strong><e
 m>The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China</em></strong> 
 (California\, 2015).</p><p><em>This event is organized by the UBC Modern Ch
 inese Culture Seminar</em><em> and sponsored by the CCK Foundation Inter-Un
 iversity Centre for Sinology\, UBC Asian Studies\, UBC St. John’s College\,
  and the UBC Centre for Chinese Research.</em></p>
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