{"product_id":"feeling-the-past-in-seventeenth-century-xiaoqiao-ling-9780674241114","title":"Feeling the Past in Seventeenth-Century China","description":"\u003cp\u003eDuring the Manchu conquest of China (1640s-1680s), the Qing government mandated that male subjects shave their hair following the Manchu style. It was a directive that brought the physical body front and center as the locus of authority and control. \u003ci\u003eFeeling the Past in Seventeenth-Century China\u003c\/i\u003e highlights the central role played by the body in writers' memories of lived experiences during the Ming-Qing cataclysm. For traditional Chinese men of letters, the body was an anchor of sensory perceptions and emotions. Sight, sound, taste, and touch configured ordinary experiences next to traumatic events, unveiling how writers participated in an actual and imagined community of like-minded literary men. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn literature from this period, the body symbolizes the process by which individual memories transform into historical knowledge that can be transmitted across generations. The ailing body interprets the Manchu presence as an epidemic to which Chinese civilization is not immune. The bleeding body, cast as an aesthetic figure, helps succeeding generations internalize knowledge inherited from survivors of dynastic conquest as a way of locating themselves in collective remembrance. This embodied experience of the past reveals literature's mission of remembrance as, first and foremost, a moral endeavor in which literary men serve as architects of cultural continuity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Xiaoqiao Ling\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674241118\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674241114\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 358\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2020","brand":"Xiaoqiao Ling","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086759801087,"sku":"9780674241114","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1aab87be-3d20-4372-8d4f-523647f602e2.jpg?v=1769096414","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/feeling-the-past-in-seventeenth-century-xiaoqiao-ling-9780674241114","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}