
Body, Ritual and Identity
A New Interpretation of the Early Qing Confucian Yan Yuan (1635-1704)
Jui-sung Yang(Author)
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 12. May 2016
Book
Hardback
200 pages
978-90-04-31545-7 (ISBN)
Description
Yan Yuan (1635-1704) has long been a controversial figure in the study of Chinese intellectual and cultural history. Although marginalized in his own time largely due to his radical attack on Zhu Xi (1130-1200), Yan was elevated to a great thinker during the early twentieth century because of the drastic changes of the modern Chinese intellectual climate. In Body, Ritual and Identity: A New Interpretation of the Early Qing Confucian Yan Yuan (1635-1704), Yang Jui-sung has demonstrated that the complexity of Yan's ideas and his hatred for Zhu Xi in particular need to be interpreted in light of his traumatic life experiences, his frustration over the fall of the Ming dynasty, and anxiety caused by the civil service examination system. Moreover, he should be better understood as a cultural critic of the lifestyle of educated elites of late imperial China. By critically analyzing Yan's changing intellectual status and his criticism that the elite lifestyle was unhealthy and feminine, this new interpretation of Yan Yuan serves to shed new light on our understanding of the features as well as problems of educated elite culture in late imperial China.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
431 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-31545-7 (9789004315457)
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Jui-sung Yang, Ph.D. (1997), University of California, Los Angeles, is Associate Professor of History at National Chengchi University, Taiwan. He has published a number of articles on late imperial and modern Chinese intellectual and cultural history, and a book: Sick Man, Yellow Peril and Sleeping Lion: Chinese Images from "Western" Perspective & the Discourses of Modern Chinese National Identity (in Chinese), Taipei: NCCU Press, 2010.