The Promise and Peril of Things: Literature and Material Culture in Late Imperial China

Author/Contributor(s):	Li, Wai-Yee
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Date:	05/17/2022
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.