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oapen-20.500.12657-758142024-03-28T09:55:54Z Symptoms of an Unruly Age Handler-Spitz, Rivi late imperial culture Renaissance studies comparative history Ming dynasty seventeeth century early Chinese literature literary figures in history 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. 2023-08-28T08:11:03Z 2023-08-28T08:11:03Z 2018 book ONIX_20230828_9780295741970_27 9780295741970 9780295741505 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/75814 eng application/pdf application/epub+zip n/a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9780295741970.pdf 9780295741970.epub https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295741505/symptoms-of-an-unruly-age University of Washington Press University of Washington Press 10.6069/9780295741970 10.6069/9780295741970 bf4ecffe-ae79-41c6-a4b1-18e7b7aac1b9 daf6b6ea-bb2a-4ef2-8a69-80df6f6120e5 9780295741970 9780295741505 University of Washington Press 256 Seattle [...] open access
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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. The open access publication of this book was made possible by a grant from the James P. Geiss and Margaret Y. Hsu Foundation.
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