[Interview by Carla Nappi]. Pi-Ching Hsu, Feng Menglong’s ‘Treasury of Laughs’. A Seventeenth-Century Anthology of Traditional Chinese Humor. New Books Network, 8 June 2016. URL : http://newbooksnetwork.com/pi-ching-hsu-feng-menglongs-treasury-of-laughs-a-seventeenth-century-anthology-of-traditional-chinese-humour-brill-2015/ (Consulté le 8 juin 2016)
The Treasury of Laughs was compiled by Feng Menglong in the 1610s. It includes more than 700 humorous skits and jokes from elite and popular sources, rewriting some of them to give the volume a kind of aesthetic and stylistic coherence. Pi-Ching Hsu’s new translation Feng Menglong’s Treasury of Laughs: A Seventeenth-Century Anthology of Traditional Chinese Humour (Brill, 2015) makes the collection available for English-language readers in a volume that contributes to how we understand both early modern China and the history of humor. In the course of our conversation we talked about the craft and challenges of translation, Feng Menglong’s approach to morality, and the linguistic textures of the collection, among many other things. Pi-Ching was generous enough to read some of her translated jokes for us, so stay tuned until the end!
OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante : Monique Abud (5 juillet 2016). Feng Menglong’s ‘Treasury of Laughs’ ChinElectrodoc. Consulté le 4 octobre 2024 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/mqvp
Ce blog a pour but de partager notre veille sur le monde chinois : annonces d’événements en France, nouvelles publications sur support papier ou électronique. Il fait suite au blog Actualités scientifiques sur la Chine.
The Treasury of Laughs was compiled by Feng Menglong in the 1610s. It includes more than 700 humorous skits and jokes from elite and popular sources, rewriting some of them to give the volume a kind of aesthetic and stylistic coherence. Pi-Ching Hsu’s new translation Feng Menglong’s Treasury of Laughs: A Seventeenth-Century Anthology of Traditional Chinese Humour (Brill, 2015) makes the collection available for English-language readers in a volume that contributes to how we understand both early modern China and the history of humor. In the course of our conversation we talked about the craft and challenges of translation, Feng Menglong’s approach to morality, and the linguistic textures of the collection, among many other things. Pi-Ching was generous enough to read some of her translated jokes for us, so stay tuned until the end!
