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 in 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 […]
Throughout the world, hundreds of millions of people, Chinese and foreign, are learning a version of Chinese called Putonghua. Since the turn of the twentieth century a host of linguists and political leaders, from the radical intellectuals of the May Fourth Movement, to leaders such as Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong, all fought linguistic wars to […]
Laughing in the Year of the Chicken: The Past and Future of Chinese Humor
A Billion Voices: The Past and Future of Putonghua