Promise and Peril of Things : Literature and Material Culture in Late Imperial China by Wai-Yee Li (2022, Hardcover)
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ISBN-13: 9780231201025, 978-0231201025. The Promise and Peril of Things Literature and Material Culture in Late Imperial China. How do our connections with the world of things define us?. In Ming and Qing China, inquiry into things and their contradictions flourished, and its depth and complexity belie the notion that material culture simply reflects status anxiety or class conflict.