Chinese Jokes Through the Ages

Chinese Jokes Through the Ages (Chinese-English)
- The Traditional Chinese Culture Classical Series
Compiled and translated by Lu Yunzhong
Published by China Translation and Publishing Corporation, 2007
Binding: Paperback, 8.25 x 5.625 inches, 261 pages
ISBN: 9787500118152

This book selects 100 humorous stories of 25 joke collections from the early Sui to the late Qing Dynasty, including among many others Smile Alluring Records written by Hou Bai in the early Sui Dynasty, Laughter Mansion, Laughter Mansion Expanded, and Telling Tales compiled by Feng Menglong, famous writer of the Ming dynasty. The pithy and humorous jokes show in a profile the lifestyle and mentality of Chinese people over the long history. The book includes modern Chinese rendition and annotations besides Chinese text with Pinyin phonetics and English translation.

中国幽默故事选
-中华传统文化精粹汉英对照
作者：卢允中
出版社：中国对外翻译出版公司，2007年
装帧：平装，32开，261 页
ISBN：9787500118152
条码：9787500118152

本书收录的一百篇幽默故事选自隋初至清末的二十五种笑话集，其中包括隋初侯白所撰的《启颜录》明代著名文学家冯梦龙编纂的《笑府》《广笑府》《叙谭概》等。书中各篇笑话均具幽默精简的特色，折射出中国历代社会的生活面貌、人情思想。每篇均加中文注释、生僻字注音以及全篇英译、白话文翻译。