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Yeung, Chris (1998a, March 22), 'Broadcaster stays open to debate,' Sunday Morning Post.
(1998b, March 27), 'Civil servants fail to see joke,' South China Morning Post.
Zeldin, Theodore (1983), The French, Fontana Paperbacks
NOTES
Discussion with Howard Young, Legislative Councillor Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the People's Republic of China, 1 February 1999.
2 These appear to be mainly Mainland Chinese jokes with some added, in stages, from Hong Kong and Taiwan. Some jokes appear to be 15 or so years behind the times. Many are not really funny. See Internet web page: http://www.sc.cninfo.net/index/new/yml.htm.
3 Carol A. R. Andrews, Assistant Keeper, conducted a 'gallery talk,' April 1997, on Ancient Egyptian Humour.
4 Mr Bean is played by Rowan Atkinson who was said, in 1998, to be Britain's highest paid actor: see South China Morning Post, 15 November 1998.
5 Howard Young, who although himself a Hong Kong Chinese, tells western jokes as he finds Chinese jokes, to use his own words, 'boring;' interviewed by author on 1 February 1999.
6 This is, in other words, the Lun Yu, one of the Chinese Classics which has been the essence of Confucianism for more than 2,500 years.
7 Fok and the author worked together in the Hong Kong Education Department up to 1980.
8 The 'Gang of Four,' which had been centred around Mao Zedong during the Cultural Revolution, was arrested in October 1976, less than a month after Mao's death. The 'Gang' consisted of Jiang Qing, Mao's widow, Yao Wengyuan, Zhang Chunqiao and the youthful Wang Hongwen.
9 Chinese soldiers too exhausted to march on were taken to the nearest habitation,
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Yeung, Chris (1998a, March 22), 'Broadcaster stays open to debate,' Sunday Morning Post.
(1998b, March 27), 'Civil servants fail to see joke,' South
China Morning Post.
Zeldin, Theodore (1983), The French, Fontana Paperbacks
NOTES
Discussion with Howard Young, Legislative Councillor Hong Kong Special Ad- ministrative Region, the People's Republic of China, 1 February 1999.
2 These appear to be mainly Mainland Chinese jokes with some added, in stages, from Hong Kong and Taiwan. Some jokes appear to be 15 or so years behind the times. Many are not really funny. See Internet web page:http://www.sc.cninfo. net/index/new/yml.htm.
3 Carol A. R. Andrews, Assistant Keeper, conducted a 'gallery talk,' April 1997,
on Ancient Egyptian Humour.
4
Mr Bean is played by Rowan Atkinson who was said, in 1998, to be Britain's highest paid actor: see South China Morning Post, 15 November 1998.
5 Howard Young, who although himself a Hong Kong Chinese, tells western jokes as he finds Chinese jokes, to use his own words, 'boring;' interviewed by author on 1 February 1999.
"This is, in other words, the Lun Yu, one of the Chinese Classics which has been
the essence of Confucianism for more than 2,500 years.
7 Fok and the author worked together in the Hong Kong Education Department up
to 1980.
8 The 'Gang of Four,' which had been centred around Mao Zedong during the Cultural Revolution, was arrested in October 1976, less than a month after Mao's death. The 'Gang' consisted of Jiang Qing, Mao's widow, Yao Wengyuan, Zhang Chunqiao and the youthful Wang Hongwen.
9 Chinese soldiers too exhausted to march on were taken to the nearest habitation,
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