Handler-Spitz, Rebecca, <br/><br/>
Symptoms of an Unruly Age :   Li Zhi and Cultures of Early Modernity /  
Rivi Handler-Spitz. 
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<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780295741970 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>HISTORY / Asia / China<br/>Sociology--Philosophy.<br/>Political science--Philosophy.<br/>Culture--Philosophy.<br/>Critical theory.<br/>Civilization, Modern--Philosophy.<br/>SOCIAL SCIENCE--Sociology--General.<br/>SOCIAL SCIENCE--Regional Studies.<br/>SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--General.<br/>Critical theory.<br/>Culture--Philosophy.<br/>Political science--Philosophy.<br/>Civilization, Modern--Philosophy.<br/>Sociology--Philosophy.
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