How the Image of the Laugh Is Represented in German and Chinese Culture and Its Relationship between Individual Experience and Cultural Trauma

This research examines how the visual image of the laugh has been used in different cultures to depict social and political issues in Western and Eastern societies. The paper’s qualitative research strategy explores two images from German and Chinese art (“The Unteachable Soldier’s Christmas Dream...

The International Journal of Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts

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