Symptoms of an Unruly Age : Li Zhi and Cultures of Early Modernity (Symptoms of an Unruly Age)

Handler-Spitz, Rivi

University of Washington Press（2017/04発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 256 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780295741505
• DDC分類 809.8951

Full 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.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Note on Names and Translations

Introduction

1. Transparent Language: Origin Myths and Early Modern Aspirations of Recovery

2. The Rhetoric of Bluff: Paradox, Irony, and Self-Contradiction

3. Sartorial Signs and Li Zhi's Paradoxical Appearance

4. Money and Li Zhi's Economies of Rhetoric

5. Dubious Books and Definitive Editions

6. Provoking or Persuading Readers? Li Zhi and the Incitement of Critical Judgment

Notes

Glossary of Chinese Characters

Bibliography

Index