The Objectionable Li Zhi : Fiction, Criticism, and Dissent in Late Ming China /
"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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
2021.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780295748399 |
| Access: | Open Access |