The Many Faces of Ruan Dacheng: Poet, Playwright, Politician in Seventeenth-Century China by Hardie, Alison

The Many Faces of Ruan Dacheng: Poet, Playwright, Politician in Seventeenth-Century China (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789888754076)

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The Many Faces of Ruan Dacheng: Poet, Playwright, Politician in Seventeenth-Century China by Hardie, Alison

The Many Faces of Ruan Dacheng: Poet, Playwright, Politician in Seventeenth-Century China

$96.00
The Many Faces of Ruan Dacheng: Poet, Playwright, Politician in Seventeenth-Century China by Hardie, Alison

The Many Faces of Ruan Dacheng: Poet, Playwright, Politician in Seventeenth-Century China

$96.00
Format: Hardcover
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Examines and reassesses the life and work of Ming-era poet Ruan Dacheng.

The Many Faces of Ruan Dacheng is the first monograph in English on a controversial Ming dynasty literary figure. It examines and reassesses the life and work of Ruan Dacheng (1587-1646), a poet, dramatist, and politician in the late Ming period. Ruan Dacheng was in his own time a highly regarded poet, although he is now better known as a dramatist. He was notorious as a "treacherous official" of the Ming-Qing transition, and as a result, his literary work has been neglected and undervalued. Hardie argues that Ruan's literary work is of much greater significance in the history of Chinese literature than has generally been recognized since his own time. Ruan, rather than being a transgressive figure, is actually a very typical late Ming literatus, and as such his attitudes towards identity and authenticity can add to our understanding of these issues in late Ming intellectual history. These insights will impact the cultural and intellectual history of late imperial China.


Author: Alison Hardie
ISBN-10: 9888754076
ISBN-13: 9789888754076
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/31/2022
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d
By Alison Hardie
By Alison Hardie
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Alison Hardie is an honorary research fellow in Chinese studies at the University of Leeds. She is the translator of Ji Cheng's seventeenth-century treatise The Craft of Gardens and editor of The Dumbarton Oaks Anthology of Chinese Garden Literature.

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