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Book Review
Book Review: Symptoms of an Unruly Age: Li Zhi and Cultures of Early Modernity by Rivi Handler-Spitz. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2017
2019
Overview
Having retired to an unlicensed Buddhist monastery in 1588 following a difficult and largely unfulfilling official career, he had shaved his head yet grown a long beard, a visual manifestation of his unwillingness or inability to conform entirely to Buddhist or Confucian social norms. In Fenshu, he writes: \"[In] A Book to Burn...my words get right to the point and criticize the intractable errors of today's scholars. Since I get right to the heart of their terminal illnesses, they certainly will wish to kill me. The discrepancy between the author's calls for his books' destruction and the active role he took in their distribution constitutes an act of bluff, for it generates grave doubts about the sincerity of Li's words\" (p. 65).
