Part IV. Textual communities. Miaw-fen Lu. Part I. Authenticity and filiality. Li Zhi and the question of life and death in Ming-Qing intellectual history / Wai-yee Li -- Li Zhi's strategic self-fashioning : sketch of a filial self / Maram Epstein -- Part II. Friends and teachers. The perils of friendship : Li Zhi's predicament / Martin W. Huang -- A public of letters : the correspondence of Li Zhi and Geng Dingxiang / Timothy Brook -- Affiliation and differentiation : Li Zhi as teacher and student / Rivi Handler-Spitz -- Part III. Manipulations of gender. Image trouble, gender trouble : was Li Zhi an enlightened man? / Ying Zhang -- Native seeds of change : women, writing, and re-reading tradition / Pauline C. Lee -- Part IV. Textual communities. An avatar of the extraordinary : Li Zhi as a Shishang writer and thinker in the Late-Ming publishing world / Kai-Wing Chow -- Performing authenticity : Li Zhi, Buddhism, and the rise of textual spirituality in early Modern China / Jiang Wu -- Part V. Afterlives. Performing as Li Zhi : Li Zhuowu and the fiction commentaries of a fictional commentator / Robert E. Hegel -- Li Zhi and the question of life and death in Ming-Qing intellectual history / Miaw-fen Lu.
Summary:
"The iconoclastic scholar Li Zhi (1527-1602) was a central figure in the cultural world of the late Ming dynasty. His provocative and controversial writings and actions powerfully shaped late-Ming print culture, commentarial and epistolary practice, discourses on authenticity and selfhood, attitudes toward friendship and masculinity, displays of filial piety, understandings of the public and private spheres, views toward women, and perspectives on Buddhism and the afterlife. In this volume, leading sinologists demonstrate the interrelatedness of seemingly discrete aspects of Li Zhi's thought and emphasize the far-reaching impact of his ideas and actions on both his contemporaries and his successors. In doing so, they challenge the myth that there was no tradition of dissidence in premodern China"-- Provided by publisher.
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