Symptoms of an Unruly Age : Li Zhi and Cultures of Early Modernity / / Rivi Handler-Spitz.

• VerfasserIn: Handler-Spitz, Rebecca,
• Place / Publishing House: Seattle, [Washington] ;, London, [England] : : University of Washington Press,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (257 pages)
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 029574197X
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Rivi Handler-Spitz.

Symptoms of an Unruly Age compares the writings of Li Zhi (1527-1602) and his late-Ming compatriots to texts composed by their European contemporaries, including Montaigne, Shakespeare, and Cervantes. Emphasizing aesthetic patterns that transcend national boundaries, Rivi Handler-Spitz explores these works as culturally distinct responses to similar social and economic tensions affecting early modern cultures on both ends of Eurasia. The paradoxes, ironies, and self-contradictions that pervade these works are symptomatic of the hypocrisy, social posturing, and counterfeiting that afflicted both Chinese and European societies at the turn of the seventeenth century.