Rivi Handler-Spitz professor of Asian languages and cultures at Macalester College. She is the author of Symptoms of an Unruly Age: Li Zhi and Cultures of Early Modernity (University of Washington Press, 2017); coeditor of The Objectionable Li Zhi: Fiction, Criticism, and Dissent in Late Ming China (University of Washington Press, 2021); and cotranslator of A Book to Burn and a Book to Keep Hidden (Columbia University Press, 2016).
Acknowledgments
Note on Names and Translations
Introduction
1. Transparent Language: Origin Myths and Early Modern Aspirations of
Recovery
2. The Rhetoric of Bluff: Paradox, Irony, and Self-Contradiction
3. Sartorial Signs and Li Zhi's Paradoxical Appearance
4. Money and Li Zhi's Economies of Rhetoric
5. Dubious Books and Definitive Editions
6. Provoking or Persuading Readers? Li Zhi and the Incitement of Critical
Judgment
Notes
Glossary of Chinese Characters
Bibliography
Index
