Towers in the Void - Li Yu and Early Modern Chinese Media

S. E. Kile argues that Li Yu's cultural experimentation draws attention to the materiality of particular media forms, expanding the scope of early modern media by interweaving books, buildings, and bodies.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Conventions
Introduction
Part I: Textual Media
1. Cultural Entrepreneurship and Woodblock Print
2. Building with Words
Part II: Spatial Media
3. Fictional Space in Twelve Towers
4. Garden Space in Leisure Notes
Part III: Corporeal Media
5. Remodeling Fictional Bodies
6. Remodeling Real Bodies in Leisure Notes
Epilogue
Appendix: Li Yu's Oeuvre
Notes
Works Cited
Index

About the author

S. E. Kile is assistant professor of Chinese literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Summary

S. E. Kile argues that Li Yu’s cultural experimentation draws attention to the materiality of particular media forms, expanding the scope of early modern media by interweaving books, buildings, and bodies.

Product details

• Authors: S. E. Kile
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.06.2023
• EAN: 9780231210041
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21004-1
• No. of pages: 392
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; China, Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Asia / China, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese, General & world history, Literature: history & criticism, Asian History, General and world history, Literature: history and criticism, Literary Criticism