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

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

Columbia University Press
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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.