Literati identity and its fictional representations in late imperial China

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By reading vernacular fiction, scholarly and exegetical texts, and aesthetic treatises as parallel if not wholly identical attempts to redefine literati identity, the book aims to advance our understanding of the intersections and overlaps between literary and discursive practices of late traditional China.

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