The Promise and Peril of Things. Literature and Material Culture in Late Imperial China, Paperback - Wai-yee (Harvard University) Li

Wai-yee Li traces notions of the pleasures and dangers of things in the literature and thought of late imperial China. She considers core oppositio...

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