A Book to Burn and a Book to Keep (Hidden) - Selected Writings

Li Zhi's iconoclastic interpretations of history, religion, literature, and social relations have fascinated Chinese intellectuals for centuries. His approach synthesized Confucian, Buddhist, and Daoist ethics and incorporated the Neo-Confucian idealism of such thinkers as Wang Yangming (1472-1529). The result was a series of heretical writings that caught fire among Li Zhi's contemporaries, despite an imperial ban on their publication, and intrigued Chinese audiences long after his death. Translated for the first time into English, Li Zhi's bold challenge to established doctrines will captivate anyone curious about the origins of such subtly transgressive works as the sixteenth-century play The Peony Pavilion or the eighteenth-century novel Dream of the Red Chamber. In A Book to Burn and a Book to Keep (Hidden), Li Zhi confronts accepted ideas about gender, questions the true identity of history's heroes and villains, and offers his own readings of Confucius, Laozi, and the Buddha. Fond of vivid sentiment and sharp expression, Li Zhi made no distinction between high and low literary genres in his literary analysis.He refused to support sanctioned ideas about morality and wrote stinging social critiques. Li Zhi praised scholars who risked everything to expose extortion and misrule. In this sophisticated translation, English-speaking readers encounter the best of this heterodox intellectual's vital contribution to Chinese thought and culture.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Zhi Li, Li Zhi, Haun Handler-Spitz Saussy
• Mitarbeit: Rebecca Handler-Spitz (Herausgeber), Rivi Handler-Spitz (Herausgeber), Handler-Spitz Rivi (Herausgeber), Pauline Lee (Herausgeber), Lee Pauline (Herausgeber), Jeremy Rosen (Herausgeber), Haun Saussy (Herausgeber), Saussy Haun (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 07.06.2016
• EAN: 9780231166133
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16613-3
• Seiten: 408
• Abmessung: 150 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Serien: Translations from the Asian Classics; Translations from the Asian Classics
• Themen: Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; China, History of Ideas, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Asia / China, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Asian History, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, religious philosophy