Symptoms of an Unruly Age : Li Zhi and Cultures of Early Modernity / Rivi Handler-Spitz.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2017]Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021Copyright date: ©[2017]Description: 1 online resource (256 pages)Content type:
  • text
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ISBN:
  • 9780295741970
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Online resources: Summary: 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.
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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.

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