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Body, ritual and identity : a new interpretation of the early Qing Confucian Yan Yuan (1635-1704)

Title: Body, ritual and identity : a new interpretation of the early Qing Confucian Yan Yuan (1635-1704) / by Jui-sung Yang.
Author: Yang, Jui-sung, 1963-
Publication: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

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xiii, 185 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"Yan Yuan (1635-1704) has long been a controversial figure in the study of Chinese intellectual and cultural history. Although marginalized in his own time largely due to his radical attack on Zhu Xi (1130-1200), Yan became elevated as a great thinker during the early twentieth century because of the drastic changes of modern Chinese intellectual climate. In Body, Ritual and Identity : A New Interpretation of the Early Qing Confucian Yan Yuan (1635-1704), Yang Jui-sung has demonstrated that the complexity of Yan's ideas and his hatred for Zhu Xi in particular need be interpreted in light of his traumatic life experiences, his frustration over the fall of the Ming dynasty, and anxiety caused by the civil service examination system. Moreover, he should be better understood as a cultural critic of the lifestyle of educated elites of late imperial China. By critically analyzing Yan's changing intellectual status and his criticism that the elite lifestyle was unhealthy and feminine, this new interpretation of Yan Yuan serves to shed new light on our understanding of the features as well as problems of educated elite culture in late imperial China"--Provided by publisher.--

Series Statement

Sinica Leidensia, 0169-9563 ; volume 132

Uniform Title

Sinica Leidensia ; v. 132.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Why Yan Yuan? -- The formation of a radical anti-Zhu Xi Confucian -- Discontent with "culture" : Yan Yuan's reconfiguration of Confucian learning -- Yan-Li School reconsidered : Li Gong as "disciple" -- From oblivion to glory : the revival of Yan Yuan in modern China -- Conclusion: Body, ritual and identity.

Call Number

JFE 16-10006

ISBN

9789004315457 (hardback : acid-free paper)
9004315454 (hardback : acid-free paper)

LCCN

2016008445

OCLC

938394113

Author

Yang, Jui-sung, 1963-

Title

Body, ritual and identity : a new interpretation of the early Qing Confucian Yan Yuan (1635-1704) / by Jui-sung Yang.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Sinica Leidensia, 0169-9563 ; volume 132

Sinica Leidensia ; v. 132.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Form:

Online version: Yang, Jui-sung, 1963- Body, ritual and identity Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016 9789004318731

Research Call Number

JFE 16-10006

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