Christopher Rea
China's Chaplin: Comic Stories and Farces by Xu Zhuodai.
East Asia Program, Cornell University, 2019. Cornell East Asia series, 194. First edition. Translation, with an introduction, by Christopher G. Rea.  9781939161048  vi/263 pages.
Hardcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.5", is new. Textual illustrations. Introduces the imagination of Xu Zhuodai (1880-1958), a comic dynamo who made Shanghai laugh through the tumultuous decades of the pre-Mao era. "China's Chaplin" contains a selection of Xu's best stories and stage plays (plus a smattering of jokes).