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table of contents
  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. Part I. Authenticity and Filiality
    1. 1. The Paradoxes of Genuineness: Problematic Self-Revelation in Li Zhi’s Autobiographical Writings
    2. 2. Li Zhi’s Strategic Self-Fashioning: Sketch of a Filial Self
  7. Part II. Friends and Teachers
    1. 3. The Perils of Friendship: Li Zhi’s Predicament
    2. 4. A Public of Letters: The Correspondence of Li Zhi and Geng Dingxiang
    3. 5. Affiliation and Differentiation: Li Zhi as Teacher and Student
  8. Part III. Manipulations of Gender
    1. 6. Image Trouble, Gender Trouble: Was Li Zhi An Enlightened Man?
    2. 7. Native Seeds of Change: Women, Writing, and Rereading Tradition
  9. Part IV. Textual Communities
    1. 8. An Avatar of the Extraordinary: Li Zhi as a Shishang Writer and Thinker in the Late-Ming Publishing World
    2. 9. Performing Authenticity: Li Zhi, Buddhism, and the Rise of Textual Spirituality in Early Modern China
  10. Part V. Afterlives
    1. 10. Performing Li Zhi: Li Zhuowu and the Fiction Commentaries of a Fictional Commentator
    2. 11. The Question of Life and Death: Li Zhi and Ming-Qing Intellectual History
  11. Glossary
  12. Bibliography
  13. Contributors
  14. Index

The cover features a painting of a bald, bearded, big-bellied man walking along with his head buried in a book, wearing only white pants with a red cloth tied around his waist and a cat climbing up his leg. Superimposed on the image are the title, The Objectionable Li Zhi, and subtitle, Fiction, Criticism, and Dissent in Late Ming China, and at the bottom, edited by Rivi Handler-Spitz, Pauline C. Lee, and Haun Saussy.

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