Research Catalog

Title

The objectionable Li Zhi : fiction, criticism, and dissent in late Ming China / edited by Rivi Handler-Spitz, Pauline C. Lee, and Haun Saussy.

Publication

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2020]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Handler-Spitz, Rebecca
• Lee, Pauline C.
• Saussy, Haun, 1960-

Description

vii, 281 pages : map; 24 cm

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"--

Subject

Li, Zhi, 1527-1602

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Rivi Handler-Spitz, Pauline C. Lee, Haun Saussy -- Part I. 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 -- Part II. 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 -- Part III. 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 -- Part IV. Textual communities. An avatar of the extraordinary : Li Zhi as a Shishang writer and thinker in the Late-Ming publishing world / Kai-Wing Chow -- Performing authenticity : Li Zhi, Buddhism, and the rise of textual spirituality in early Modern China / Jiang Wu -- Part V. Afterlives. Performing as Li Zhi : Li Zhuowu and the fiction commentaries of a fictional commentator / Robert E. Hegel -- Li Zhi and the question of life and death in Ming-Qing intellectual history / Miaw-fen Lu.

Call Number

JFE 21-2341

ISBN

• 9780295748375
• 0295748370
• 9780295748382
• 0295748389

LCCN

• 2020020100
• 40030364364

OCLC

1150968671

Title

The objectionable Li Zhi : fiction, criticism, and dissent in late Ming China / edited by Rivi Handler-Spitz, Pauline C. Lee, and Haun Saussy.

Publisher

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2020]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Handler-Spitz, Rebecca, editor.

Lee, Pauline C., editor.

Saussy, Haun, 1960- editor.

Other Form:

Online version: The objectionable Li Zhi Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2021. 9780295748399 (DLC) 2020020101

Other Standard Identifier

40030364364

Research Call Number

JFE 21-2341