The objectionable Li Zhi : fiction, criticism, and dissent in late Ming China
Title:
The objectionable Li Zhi : fiction, criticism, and dissent in late Ming China
Author:
Handler-Spitz, Rebecca, editor.
ISBN:
9780295748375
Publication Information:
Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2020]
Physical Description:
vii, 281 pages : map ; 24 cm
Contents:
The problem of genuineness in Li Zhi / Li Zhi's strategic self-fashioning : sketch of a filial self / The perils of friendship : Li Zhi's predicament / A public of letters : the correspondence of Li Zhi and Geng Dingxiang / Affiliation and differentiation : Li Zhi as teacher and student / Image trouble, gender trouble : was Li Zhi an enlightened man? / Native seeds of change : women, writing, and re-reading tradition / An avatar of the extraordinary : Li Zhi as a Shishang writer and thinker in the Late-Ming publishing world / Performing authenticity : Li Zhi, Buddhism, and the rise of textual spirituality in early Modern China / Performing as Li Zhi : Li Zhuowu and the fiction commentaries of a fictional commentator / Li Zhi and the question of life and death in Ming-Qing intellectual history
Abstract:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Field 805:
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