The Objectionable Li Zhi : : Fiction, Criticism, and Dissent in Late Ming China / / edited by Rivi Handler-Spitz, Pauline C. Lee, and Haun Saussy.
"The iconoclastic scholar Li Zhi (1527-1602) was a central figure in the cultural world of the late Ming dynasty. His provocative and controversial writings and actions powerfully shaped late-Ming print culture, commentarial and epistolary practice, discourses on authenticity and selfhood, atti...
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Place / Publishing House: | Seattle : : University of Washington Press,, 2021. Baltimore, Md. : : Project MUSE,, 2021 ©2021. |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Summary: | "The iconoclastic scholar Li Zhi (1527-1602) was a central figure in the cultural world of the late Ming dynasty. His provocative and controversial writings and actions powerfully shaped late-Ming print culture, commentarial and epistolary practice, discourses on authenticity and selfhood, attitudes toward friendship and masculinity, displays of filial piety, understandings of the public and private spheres, views toward women, and perspectives on Buddhism and the afterlife. In this volume, leading sinologists demonstrate the interrelatedness of seemingly discrete aspects of Li Zhi's thought and emphasize the far-reaching impact of his ideas and actions on both his contemporaries and his successors. In doing so, they challenge the myth that there was no tradition of dissidence in premodern China"-- |
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ISBN: | 0295748397 |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | edited by Rivi Handler-Spitz, Pauline C. Lee, and Haun Saussy. |