{"product_id":"towers-in-the-void-9780231210058","title":"Towers in the Void","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eS. E. Kile argues that Li Yu’s cultural experimentation draws attention to the materiality of particular media forms, expanding the scope of early modern media by interweaving books, buildings, and bodies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith its incisive analysis, eloquent writing, and integrated use of theories, this book is of great value for scholars in literature, print culture, and material culture. * H-Material-Culture *\u003cbr\u003eA brilliant new conceptualization of the maverick Li Yu as entrepreneur, designer, playwright, and multimedia specialist. Kile’s daring, astute study of this most original seventeenth-century Chinese writer grabs you from page one. A true tour de force. -- Judith Zeitlin, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Phantom Heroine: Ghosts and Gender in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLi Yu had a career as full of twists as his stories are. Taking media innovation as the thread that connects Li Yu’s many activities, this study opens new windows in his floating towers and adds arias to his silent operas. -- Haun Saussy, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Making of Barbarians: Chinese Literature and Multilingual Asia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this important and absorbing study of Li Yu, Kile shows how thinking through media in its multiple forms—print culture, the sights and sounds of the theater, spatial constructs, the human body—yields fresh insights into early modern China. -- Wai-yee Li, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Promise and Peril of Things: Literature and Material Culture in Late Imperial China\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTowers in the Void\u003c\/i\u003e provides authoritative new insights into Li Yu’s writings based on a broad examination of his corpus. Integrating insightful and innovative readings of Li Yu’s creative works with his prescriptions on garden design and lengthy musings, Kile offers a new and productive approach to the study of Li Yu that can inspire other such innovative analyses of late imperial Chinese literature. -- Robert Hegel, cotranslator of \u003ci\u003eA Couple of Soles: A Comic Play from Seventeenth-Century China\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eConventions\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Textual Media\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Cultural Entrepreneurship and Woodblock Print\u003cbr\u003e2. Building with Words\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Spatial Media\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. Fictional Space in \u003ci\u003eTwelve Towers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. Garden Space in \u003ci\u003eLeisure Notes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Corporeal Media\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. Remodeling Fictional Bodies\u003cbr\u003e6. Remodeling Real Bodies in \u003ci\u003eLeisure Notes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003eAppendix: Li Yu’s Oeuvre\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eWorks Cited\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864264585559,"sku":"9780231210058","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231210058.jpg?v=1722271139","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/towers-in-the-void-9780231210058","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}