Selected Ming-dynasty essays by Li Zhi challenging orthodoxy, gender norms, history, and faith through sharp Confucian–Buddhist–Daoist critique.
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Selected Ming-dynasty essays by Li Zhi challenging orthodoxy, gender norms, history, and faith through sharp Confucian–Buddhist–Daoist critique.
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Li Zhi's iconoclastic interpretations of history, religion, literature, and social relations have fascinated Chinese intellectuals for centuries. His approach synthesized Confucian, Buddhist, and Daoist ethics and incorporated the Neo-Confucian idealism of such thinkers as Wang Yangming (1472–1529). The result was a series of heretical writings that caught fire among Li Zhi's contemporaries, despite an imperial ban on their publication, and intrigued Chinese audiences long after his death. Trans...
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Central Confucian, Buddhist, and Daoist ethics; readings of Confucius, Laozi, Buddha
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Heretical social critiques; challenges orthodoxy, misrule, and sanctioned morality
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