Promise and Peril of Things. Literature and Material Culture in Late Imperial China
by Wai-Yee Li
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New York. Columbia University Press. c. 2022 . Stock ID #216495 xiv + 362pp, notes, bibliography, index. Paperback, as new. In this book, Wai-yee Li traces notions of the pleasures and dangers of things in the literature and thought of late imperial China. She explores how aesthetic claims and political power intersect, probes the objective and subjective dimensions of value, and questions what determines
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