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The Objectionable Li Zhi: Fiction, Criticism, and Dissent in Late Ming China
ISBN: 9780295748375
Author : Rivi Handler-Spitz
Published: 2021
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Number of pages: 296
Language: English
Format: Hardback
Format: 229×152
Author : Rivi Handler-Spitz
Published: 2021
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Number of pages: 296
Language: English
Format: Hardback
Format: 229×152
Description
Iconoclastic scholar Li Zhi (1527–1602) was a central figure in the cultural world of the late Ming dynasty. His provocative and controversial words and actions shaped print culture, literary practice, attitudes toward gender, and perspectives on Buddhism and the afterlife. Although banned, his writings were never fully suppressed, because they tapped into issues of vital significance to generations of readers. His incisive remarks, along with the emotional intensity and rhetorical power with which he delivered them, made him an icon of his cultural moment and an emblem of early modern Chinese intellectual dissent.
In this volume, leading China scholars demonstrate the interrelatedness of seemingly discrete aspects of Li Zhi’s thought and emphasize his far-reaching impact on his contemporaries and successors. In doing so, they challenge the myth that there was no tradition of dissidence in premodern China.
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