CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- RIVI HANDLER-SPITZ, PAULINE C. LEE, AND HAUN SAUSSY
- PART I. AUTHENTICITY AND FILIALITY
- 1. The Paradoxes of Genuineness: Problematic Self-Revelation in Li Zhi’s Autobiographical Writings
- WAI-YEE LI
- 2. Li Zhi’s Strategic Self-Fashioning: Sketch of a Filial Self
- MARAM EPSTEIN
- PART II. FRIENDS AND TEACHERS
- 3. The Perils of Friendship: Li Zhi’s Predicament
- MARTIN W. HUANG
- 4. A Public of Letters: The Correspondence of Li Zhi and Geng Dingxiang
- TIMOTHY BROOK
- 5. Affiliation and Differentiation: Li Zhi as Teacher and Student
- RIVI HANDLER-SPITZ
- PART III. MANIPULATIONS OF GENDER
- 6. Image Trouble, Gender Trouble: Was Li Zhi An Enlightened Man?
- YING ZHANG
- 7. Native Seeds of Change: Women, Writing, and Rereading Tradition
- PAULINE C. LEE
- PART IV. TEXTUAL COMMUNITIES
- 8. An Avatar of the Extraordinary: Li Zhi as a Shishang Writer and Thinker in the Late-Ming Publishing World
- KAI-WING CHOW
- 9. Performing Authenticity: Li Zhi, Buddhism, and the Rise of Textual Spirituality in Early Modern China
- JIANG WU
- PART V. AFTERLIVES
- 10. Performing Li Zhi: Li Zhuowu and the Fiction Commentaries of a Fictional Commentator
- ROBERT E. HEGEL
- 11. The Question of Life and Death: Li Zhi and Ming-Qing Intellectual History
- MIAW-FEN LU
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index