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Body, ritual and identity

9789004315457 )hardback : acid-free paper(

Body, ritual and identity

by Jui-sung Yang

Boston

Brill

2016

xiii, 185 pages , 25 cm.

Sinica Leidensia,0169-9563 ;volume 132

"Yan Yuan )1635-1704( has long been a controversial figure in the study of Chinese intellectual and cultural history. Although marginalized in his own time largely due to his radical attack on Zhu Xi )1130-1200(, Yan became elevated as a great thinker during the early twentieth century because of the drastic changes of modern Chinese intellectual climate. In Body, Ritual and Identity : A New Interpretation of the Early Qing Confucian Yan Yuan )1635-1704(, Yang Jui-sung has demonstrated that the complexity of Yan's ideas and his hatred for Zhu Xi in particular need be interpreted in light of his traumatic life experiences, his frustration over the fall of the Ming dynasty, and anxiety caused by the civil service examination system. Moreover, he should be better understood as a cultural critic of the lifestyle of educated elites of late imperial China. By critically analyzing Yan's changing intellectual status and his criticism that the elite lifestyle was unhealthy and feminine, this new interpretation of Yan Yuan serves to shed new light on our understanding of the features as well as problems of educated elite culture in late imperial China"--Provided by publisher.--Source other than Library of Congress.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

a new interpretation of the early Qing Confucian Yan Yuan )1635-1704(

Yan, Yuan,, 1635-1704

Yan, Yuan,, 1635-1704, Political and social views

Yan, Yuan,, 1635-1704, Criticism and interpretation

Philosophers, China, Biography

Confucianists, China, Biography

Radicals, China, Biography

Zhu, Xi,, 1130-1200, Adversaries

Elite )Social sciences(, China, History

Civil service, China, Examinations, History

China, History, Qing dynasty, 1644-1912

Yang, Jui-sung,1963-

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