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University of Washington Press Symptoms of an Unruly Age: Li Zhi and Cultures of Early Modernity

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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. 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. Review Handler-Spitz sets herself two discrete tasks: to describe societies that were undergoing critical, parallel changes; and to justify the comparative approach itself. . . . As Handler-Spitz makes clear, simply recognizing the parallels can safeguard us from inappropriately narrow, single-culture-specific notions of causality. Author: Katherine Carlitz Source: Journal of Asian Studies Review A bold book. Rivi Handler-Spitz brilliantly shows that Montaigne and Postel were not alone in the world in thinking that they were living in an age of uncertainty. Li Zhi and others in Ming China were struggling with many of the same doubts about language and value. Author: Timothy Brook, author of The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties From the Author Rivi Handler-Spitz is associate professor of Chinese language and literature at Macalester College. About the Author Rivi Handler-Spitz is associate professor of Chinese language and literature at Macalester College.

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Brand: University of Washington Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0295741503
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Middle East
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 04 April 2017
Listed Since: 28 October 2016

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