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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.
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The Promise and Peril of Things, Stephen Durrant, Wai-yee Li, Michael Nylan, Hans van Ess
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- Released
- 2022
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- Title
- The Promise and Peril of Things
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Stephen Durrant, Wai-yee Li, Michael Nylan, Hans van Ess
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Released
- 2022
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0231201036
- ISBN13
- 9780231201032
- Description
- 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.