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Title: PROMISE AND PERIL OF THINGS
LITERATURE AND MATERIAL CULTURE IN LATE IMPERIAL CHINA
By: Wai-yee Li
Format: Paperback / softback

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ISBN 10: 0231201036
ISBN 13: 9780231201032
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Publisher: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 24 May, 2022
Pages: 360
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.
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