Humour in Chinese Life and Letters
Hosted by: AIIANSW and University of Sydney China Institute
The event will start on: Sunday, 29 January 2012 1:00 PM
And will end on: Sunday, 29 January 2012 2:00 PM
Posted by: nsw
We shall begin our 2012 season on Sunday, January 29 at the Art Gallery of New South Wales where two of our most distinguished members, Professor Jocelyn Chey, AO, and Dr Stephen Fitzgerald, Australia’s first ambassador to the communist government Beijing, will both launch a new book Humour in Chinese Life and Letters. This event is part of the City of Sydney 2012 Chinese New year Festival whose organisers, the Chinese Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, have kindly invited our members to attend.
Humour in Chinese Life and Letters: Classical and Traditional Approaches is a book that draws together essays on humour and laughter in their many forms of expression in Chinese culture past and present. Verbal, visual and behavioural modes of humour are explored by specialists in fields ranging from cultural and political history to linguistics, literature, drama and the history and philosophy of science.
Professor Chey, who is a member of the AIIA council, will give an illustrated lecture on Youmo: the Chinese sense of humour and Dr Fitzgerald will formally launch the book. Following this, there will be an opportunity to talk with the book’s co-editors, Jocelyn Chey and Dr Jessica Milner Davis at a book-signing.
Venue: Centenary Auditorium, Art Gallery of NSW, Art Gallery Road, The Domain, Sydney
Time: Sunday, 29 January 2012 at 1 pm
Entry: Free, registration not needed
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