10. Performing Li Zhi: Li Zhuowu and the Fiction Commentaries of a Fictional Commentator

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. PART I. AUTHENTICITY AND FILIALITY
6. 1. The Paradoxes of Genuineness: Problematic Self-Revelation in Li Zhi’s Autobiographical Writings 17
7. 2. Li Zhi’s Strategic Self-Fashioning: Sketch of a Filial Self 38
8. PART II. FRIENDS AND TEACHERS
9. 3. The Perils of Friendship: Li Zhi’s Predicament 55
10. 4. A Public of Letters: The Correspondence of Li Zhi and Geng Dingxiang 75
11. 5. Affiliation and Differentiation: Li Zhi as Teacher and Student 92
12. PART III. MANIPULATIONS OF GENDER
13. 6. Image Trouble, Gender Trouble: Was Li Zhi An Enlightened Man? 111
14. 7. Native Seeds of Change: Women, Writing, and Rereading Tradition 132
15. PART IV. TEXTUAL COMMUNITIES
16. 8. An Avatar of the Extraordinary: Li Zhi as a Shishang Writer and Thinker in the Late-Ming Publishing World 145
17. 9. Performing Authenticity: Li Zhi, Buddhism, and the Rise of Textual Spirituality in Early Modern China 164
18. PART V. AFTERLIVES
19. 10. Performing Li Zhi: Li Zhuowu and the Fiction Commentaries of a Fictional Commentator 187
20. 11. The Question of Life and Death: Li Zhi and Ming-Qing Intellectual History 209
21. Glossary 229
22. Bibliography 241
23. Contributors 263
24. Index 265