The Promise and Peril of Things : Literature and Material Culture in Late Imperial China
by
Wai-yee Li
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0231201036
ISBN-13
9780231201032
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Imprint
Columbia University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 17th, 2022
Print length
376 Pages
Weight
572 grams
Dimensions
15.20 x 22.90 x 2.50 cms
Product Classification:
Education
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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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