The substance of fiction : literary objects in China, 1550-1775 /
Do the portrayals of objects in literary texts represent historical evidence about the material culture of the past? Or are things in books more than things in the world? Sophie Volpp considers fictional objects of the late Ming and Qing that defy being read as illustrative of historical things. Ins...
| Main Author: | Volpp, Sophie, 1963- (Author) |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2022].
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| Series: | Premodern East Asia--New horizons.
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| Subjects: |
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