A Monk and a Monkey Watk into a Bar...
2013-01-01 00:00:00
漢語世界(The World of Chinese) 2013年2期
It's tempting to imagine people in long gone centuries writing war poems beneath a cherry blossom or love poems in a lonely cabin， but these folks needed a laugh just like we do today. Well， for the literature of laughter， we can turn to Xiaolin Guangji（《笑林廣記》） ， lit. Extensive Gleanings from the Forests of Laughter）， a book that transports you back in time hundreds of years and gives a concrete quality to the humor and life of the age.
