Christopher G. Rea
About
Christopher G. Rea is a literary and cultural historian, and Professor of Chinese in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. The author, editor, and translator of several books, he is best known for his study The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China, which won the Association for Asian Studies Joseph Levenson Book Prize in 2017. He is also author of Chinese Film Classics, 1922-1949 and co-author of Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You .
