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The objectionable Li Zhi : fiction, criticism, and dissent in late Ming China / edited by Rivi Handler-Spitz, Pauline C. Lee, and Haun Saussy.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Li, Zhi, 1527-1602.
- Li, Zhi.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 281 pages) : map
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2020]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Authenticity and Filiality. The Problem of Genuineness in Li Zhi / Wai-yee Li
- Li Zhi's Strategic Self-Fashioning: Sketch of a Filial Self / Maram Epstein
- Friends and Teachers. The Perils of Friendship: Li Zhi's Predicament / Martin W. Huang
- A Public of Letters: The Correspondence of Li Zhi and Geng Dingxiang / Timothy Brook
- Affiliation and Differentiation: Li Zhi as Teacher and Student / Rivi Handler-Spitz
- Manipulations of Gender. Image Trouble, Gender Trouble: Was Li Zhi an Enlightened Man / Ying Zhang
- Native Seeds of Change: Women, Writing, and Re-Reading Tradition / Pauline C. Lee
- Performing Authenticity: Li Zhi, Buddhism, and the Rise of Textual Spirituality in Early Modern China / Jiang Wu
- Afterlives. Performing as Li Zhi / Robert E. Hegel
- Li Zhi and the Question of Life and Death in Ming-Qing Intellectual History / Miaw-fen Lu.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 21, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: The objectionable Li Zhi
- ISBN:
- 9780295748399
- 0295748397
- Publisher Number:
- 40030309504
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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