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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Authenticity and Filiality. The Problem of Genuineness in Li Zhi / Wai-yee Li -- Li Zhi's Strategic Self-Fashioning: Sketch of a Filial Self / Maram Epstein -- Friends and Teachers. The Perils of Friendship: Li Zhi's Predicament / Martin W. Huang -- A Public of Letters: The Correspondence of Li Zhi and Geng Dingxiang / Timothy Brook -- Affiliation and Differentiation: Li Zhi as Teacher and Student / Rivi Handler-Spitz -- Manipulations of Gender. Image Trouble, Gender Trouble: Was Li Zhi an Enlightened Man / Ying Zhang -- Native Seeds of Change: Women, Writing, and Re-Reading Tradition / Pauline C. Lee -- Performing Authenticity: Li Zhi, Buddhism, and the Rise of Textual Spirituality in Early Modern China / Jiang Wu -- Afterlives. Performing as Li Zhi / Robert E. Hegel -- Li Zhi and the Question of Life and Death in Ming-Qing Intellectual History / Miaw-fen Lu.
"The iconoclastic scholar Li Zhi (1527-1602) was a central figure in the cultural world of the late Ming dynasty. His provocative and controversial writings and actions powerfully shaped late-Ming print culture, commentarial and epistolary practice, discourses on authenticity and selfhood, attitudes toward friendship and masculinity, displays of filial piety, understandings of the public and private spheres, views toward women, and perspectives on Buddhism and the afterlife. In this volume, leading sinologists demonstrate the interrelatedness of seemingly discrete aspects of Li Zhi's thought and emphasize the far-reaching impact of his ideas and actions on both his contemporaries and his successors. In doing so, they challenge the myth that there was no tradition of dissidence in premodern China"--