Symptoms of an Unruly Age: Li Zhi and Cultures of Early Modernity [Paperback]

Description: Symptoms of an Unruly Age compares the writings of Li Zhi (1527-1602) and his late-Ming compatriots to texts composed by their European contemporaries, including Montaigne, Shakespeare, and Cervantes. Emphasizing aesthetic patterns that transcend national boundaries, Rivi Handler-Spitz explores these works as culturally distinct responses to similar social and economic tensions affecting early modern cultures on both ends of Eurasia. The paradoxes, ironies, and self-contradictions that pervade these works are symptomatic of the hypocrisy, social posturing, and counterfeiting that afflicted both Chinese and European societies at the turn of the seventeenth century. Symptoms of an Unruly Age shows us that these texts, produced thousands of miles away from one another, each constitute cultural manifestations of early modernity. The open access publication of this book was made possible by a grant from the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation.

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Book Title: Symptoms of an Unruly Age: Li Zhi and Cultures of

Number of Pages: 256 Pages

Publication Name: Symptoms of an Unruly Age : Li Zhi and Cultures of Early Modernity

Language: English

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Subject: Asian / Chinese, Asia / China

Publication Year: 2019

Item Height: 0.8 in

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 12.8 Oz

Author: Rivi Handler-Spitz

Item Length: 8.9 in

Subject Area: Literary Criticism, History

Item Width: 5.9 in

Format: Trade Paperback