The Promise and Peril of Things
Literature and Material Culture in Late Imperial China
1st Edition
Published on 1. June 2022
376 pages
978-0-231-55389-6 (ISBN)
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Wai-yee Li traces notions of the pleasures and dangers of things in the literature and thought of late imperial China. She considers core oppositions-people and things, elegance and vulgarity, real and fake, lost and found-to tease out the ambiguities of material culture.
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Wai-yee Li is the 1879 Professor of Chinese Literature at Harvard University. Her recent books include Plum Shadows and Plank Bridge (Columbia, 2020), Keywords in Chinese Culture (2020), and Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial Chinese Literature (2014).
Content
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. People and Things
2. Elegance and Vulgarity
3. The Real and the Fake
4. Lost and Found
Epilogue
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. People and Things
2. Elegance and Vulgarity
3. The Real and the Fake
4. Lost and Found
Epilogue
Notes
Works Cited
Index
