Body, Ritual and Identity

A New Interpretation of the Early Qing Confucian Yan Yuan (1635-1704)
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-31545-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 132, 186 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

Reihe: Sinica Leidensia

Yan Yuan (1635-1704) has long been a controversial figure in the study of Chinese intellectual and cultural history. Although marginalized in his own time largely due to his radical attack on Zhu Xi (1130-1200), Yan was elevated to a great thinker during the early twentieth century because of the drastic changes of the modern Chinese intellectual climate. In Body, Ritual and Identity: A New Interpretation of the Early Qing Confucian Yan Yuan (1635-1704), Yang Jui-sung has demonstrated that the complexity of Yan’s ideas and his hatred for Zhu Xi in particular need to be interpreted in light of his traumatic life experiences, his frustration over the fall of the Ming dynasty, and anxiety caused by the civil service examination system. Moreover, he should be better understood as a cultural critic of the lifestyle of educated elites of late imperial China. By critically analyzing Yan’s changing intellectual status and his criticism that the elite lifestyle was unhealthy and feminine, this new interpretation of Yan Yuan serves to shed new light on our understanding of the features as well as problems of educated elite culture in late imperial China.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yang, Jui-Sung

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Östliche Religionen Konfuzianismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Jui-sung Yang, Ph.D. (1997), University of California, Los Angeles, is Associate Professor of History at National Chengchi University, Taiwan. He has published a number of articles on late imperial and modern Chinese intellectual and cultural history, and a book: Sick Man, Yellow Peril and Sleeping Lion: Chinese Images from “Western” Perspective & the Discourses of Modern Chinese National Identity (in Chinese), Taipei: NCCU Press, 2010.