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| Other uniform titles: | Li, Zhi, 1527-1602. Miscellaneous matters. English.
Li, Zhi, 1527-1602. On the child-like heart-mind. English.
Li, Zhi, 1527-1602. Sketch of Zhuowu. English.
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| ISBN: | 9781438439280
1438439288
9781438439273
143843927X
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | "Li Zhi (1527-1602) was a bestselling author with a devoted readership. His biting, shrewd, and visionary writings with titles like A Book to Hide and A Book to Burn were both inspiring and inflammatory. Widely read from his own time to the present, Li Zhi has long been acknowledged as an important figure in Chinese cultural history. While he is esteemed as a stinging social critic and an impassioned writer, Li Zhi's ideas have been dismissed as lacking a deeper or constructive vision. Pauline C. Lee convincingly shows us otherwise. Situating Li Zhi within the highly charged world of the late-Ming culture of "feelings," Lee presents his slippery and unruly yet clear and robust ethical vision. Li Zhi is a Confucian thinker whose consuming concern is a powerful interior world of abundance, distinctive to each individual: the realm of the emotions. Critical to his ideal of the good life is the ability to express one's feelings well. In the work's conclusion, Lee brings Li Zhi's insights into conversation with contemporary philosophical debates about the role of feelings, an ethics of authenticity, and the virtue of desire."--Pub. desc.
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| Other form: | Print version: Lee, Pauline C. Li Zhi, Confucianism, and the virtue of desire. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2011
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