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Dynastic Crisis and Cultural Innovation
David Der-Wei Wang (Ed.)
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Description for Dynastic Crisis and Cultural Innovation
Hardcover. Editor(s): Wang, David Der-Wei; Wei, Shang-Jin. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 575 pages, 7fig. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 170 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1030.
This volume addresses cultural and literary transformation in the late Ming (1550-1644) and late Qing (1851-1911) eras. Although conventionally associated with a devastating sociopolitical crisis, each of these periods was also a time when Chinese culture was rejuvenated. Focusing on the twin themes of crisis and innovation, the seventeen chapters in this book aim to illuminate the late Ming and late Qing as eras of literary-cultural innovation during periods of imperial disintegration; to analyze linkages between the two periods and the radical heritage they bequeathed to the modern imagination; and to rethink the "premodernity" of the late Ming and late ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
575
Condition
New
Series
Harvard East Asian Monographs
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780674017818
SKU
V9780674017818
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About David Der-Wei Wang (Ed.)
David Der-wei Wang is Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature and Comparative Literature, Harvard University, and Director of the CCK Foundation Inter-University Center for Sinological Studies. Shang Wei is Du Family Professor of Chinese Culture at Columbia University.
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