Translating 'humor' into Chinese culture

Humor

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 277-295

  Suoqiao, Qian ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Chinese cross cultural; Humor 'youmo'; Lin Yutang; Translation

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547932081     PISSN: 09331719     EISSN: 16133722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/HUMOR.2007.014     Document Type: Article

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