Feeling the Past in Seventeenth-Century China

Feeling the Past in Seventeenth-Century China highlights the central role played by the body in writers' memories during the Ming-Qing cataclysm. Sight, sound, taste, and touch configured ordinary experiences next to traumatic events. This embodied experience reveals literature's mission of remembrance as a moral endeavor in cultural continuity.

Summary

Feeling the Past in Seventeenth-Century China highlights the central role played by the body in writers’ memories during the Ming–Qing cataclysm. Sight, sound, taste, and touch configured ordinary experiences next to traumatic events. This embodied experience reveals literature’s mission of remembrance as a moral endeavor in cultural continuity.

Product details

• Authors: Xiaoqiao Ling
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9780674241114
• ISBN: 978-0-674-24111-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series; Harvard-Yenching Institute Mon
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous