{"product_id":"the-many-faces-of-ruan-dacheng-poet-playwright-politician-in-seventeenth-century-china-hardcover","title":"The Many Faces of Ruan Dacheng: Poet, Playwright, Politician in Seventeenth-Century China - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlison Hardie\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExamines and reassesses the life and work of Ming-era poet Ruan Dacheng.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Many Faces of Ruan Dacheng\u003c\/i\u003e is the first monograph in English on a controversial Ming dynasty literary figure. It examines and reassesses the life and work of Ruan Dacheng (1587-1646), a poet, dramatist, and politician in the late Ming period. Ruan Dacheng was in his own time a highly regarded poet, although he is now better known as a dramatist. He was notorious as a \"treacherous official\" of the Ming-Qing transition, and as a result, his literary work has been neglected and undervalued. Hardie argues that Ruan's literary work is of much greater significance in the history of Chinese literature than has generally been recognized since his own time. Ruan, rather than being a transgressive figure, is actually a very typical late Ming literatus, and as such his attitudes towards identity and authenticity can add to our understanding of these issues in late Ming intellectual history. These insights will impact the cultural and intellectual history of late imperial China. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlison Hardie\u003c\/b\u003e is an honorary research fellow in Chinese studies at the University of Leeds. She is the translator of Ji Cheng's seventeenth-century treatise \u003ci\u003eThe Craft of Gardens\u003c\/i\u003e and editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Dumbarton Oaks Anthology of Chinese Garden Literature\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 31, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42157475430535,"sku":"9789888754076","price":172.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/b79079fdc47df90255518468f3ebf52c.webp?v=1733251133","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-many-faces-of-ruan-dacheng-poet-playwright-politician-in-seventeenth-century-china-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}