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Rivi Handler-Spitz - Symptoms of an Unruly Age - 9780295741505 - V9780295741505
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Symptoms of an Unruly Age

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Description for Symptoms of an Unruly Age Hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, 5 illus. BIC Classification: 1FPC; DS; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295741505
SKU
V9780295741505
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About Rivi Handler-Spitz
Rivi Handler-Spitz is associate professor of Chinese language and literature at Macalester College.

Reviews for Symptoms of an Unruly Age
"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."
Katherine Carlitz
Journal of Asian Studies
"Symptoms of an Unruly Age beautifully captures Li Zhi’s late-Ming world ... Read more

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