China, Chinese, East Asia, Ming dynasty, primary source, quotes
This wistful, affectionate phrase come from Feng Menglong’s preface to the Expanded Treasury of Laughter.Among other aspects of fools, we are determined to figure out who counts as a, or the, god of laughter and, by liberal extension, fools. There is a generous...
China, Chinese, East Asia, Ming dynasty, primary source, quotes
This expansive quotation comes from the Preface to the Expanded Treasury of Laughter by Feng Menglong (1574-1646). I love its tumbling cascade of mutual mockery and laughter. And, like Aristotle, he seems to posit laughter as a quiddity of being human, though...
