The Invention of Li Yu

Patrick Hanan

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ISBN 9780674332270

Publication Date: 08/24/1988

272 pages

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1. Making a Living
2. Creating a Self
3. The Necessity of Invention
4. The Primacy of Pleasure
5. Paradoxical Farceur
6. Comic Erotiker
7. Virtuoso of Fine Stitching
8. Specialist in Idle Pursuits
Notes
Editions of Independent Words (Yijia Yan)
Bibliography
Glossary
Index

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1990 Joseph Levenson Book Prize, Pre-Twentieth Century Category, China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies

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