A Book to Burn and a Book to Keep (Hidden) : Selected Writings / / Zhi Li; Rivi Handler-Spitz, Pauline Lee, Haun Saussy

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910150257003321
• Autore: Li Zhi
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, NY : , : Columbia University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• ISBN: 0-231-54153-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (409 p.)
• Collana: Translations from the Asian Classics
• Disciplina: 895.18/4609
• Soggetti: Chinese literature - History and criticism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONVENTIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I. PREFACES 序引 -- PART II. LETTERS 書答 -- PART III. MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS 雜書 -- PART IV. READINGS OF HISTORY 讀史 -- PART V. POETRY 詩 -- PART I. PREFACES 序引 -- PART II. LETTERS 書答 -- PART III. MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS 雜書 -- PART IV. POETRY 詩 -- FROM A BOOK TO KEEP (HIDDEN) (CANGSHU 藏書)(1599) -- THE HISTORICAL RECORD 史料 -- CHRONOLOGY OF LI ZHI’S LIFE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: Li Zhi's iconoclastic interpretations of history, religion, literature, and social relations have fascinated Chinese intellectuals for centuries. His approach synthesized Confucian, Buddhist, and Daoist ethics and incorporated the Neo-Confucian idealism of such thinkers as Wang Yangming (1472–1529). The result was a series of heretical writings that caught fire among Li Zhi's contemporaries, despite an imperial ban on their publication, and intrigued Chinese audiences long after his death. Translated for the first time into English, Li Zhi's bold challenge to established doctrines will captivate anyone curious about the origins of such subtly transgressive works as the sixteenth-century play The Peony Pavilion or the eighteenth-century novel Dream of the Red Chamber. In A Book to Burn and a Book to Keep (Hidden), Li Zhi confronts accepted ideas about gender, questions the true identity of history's heroes and villains, and offers his own readings of Confucius, ; Laozi, and the Buddha. Fond of vivid sentiment and sharp expression, Li Zhi made no distinction between high and low literary genres in his literary analysis. He refused to support sanctioned ideas about morality and wrote stinging social critiques. Li Zhi praised scholars who risked everything to expose extortion and misrule. In this sophisticated translation, English-speaking readers encounter the best of this heterodox intellectual's vital contribution to Chinese thought and culture.