TY - BOOK ID - 3536789 TI - Body, ritual and identity : a new interpretation of the early Qing-Confucian Yan Yuan (1635-1704) AU - Yang, Jui-sung AU - Brill PY - 2016 VL - 132 SN - 9789004315457 9004315454 9004318739 9789004318731 PB - Leiden ; Boston Brill DB - UniCat KW - S12/0450 KW - S02/0210 KW - China: Philosophy and Classics--Ming, Qing: later Confucian teachings, Sacred Edicts (incl. Wang Fuzhi, Yan Yuan, Li Kong, Dai Dongyuan) KW - China: General works--Intellectuals: general and before 1840 KW - Philosophers KW - Confucianists KW - Radicals KW - Elite (Social sciences) KW - Civil service KW - Elites (Social sciences) KW - Leadership KW - Power (Social sciences) KW - Social classes KW - Social groups KW - Ideological extremists KW - Political extremists KW - Extremists KW - History. KW - Examinations KW - Yan, Yuan, KW - Zhu, Xi, KW - Chu, Hsi KW - C̄ū, Hī KW - Chu, Hi KW - Choo, He KW - Tschu, Hi KW - Shu, Ki KW - Chu, Hy KW - Tchou, Hi KW - Chu, Hũi KW - Tchu-hi KW - Zhu, Fuzi, KW - Chu, Fu-tzu, KW - Choo-Foo-Tze, KW - Choo-foo-tsze, KW - Chu, Puja, KW - 朱夫子, KW - Zhu, Zi, KW - Chu, Tzu, KW - Zhuzi, KW - Chu-tzu, KW - Chuja, KW - Shu-shi, KW - Shushi, KW - 朱子, KW - Zhu, Yuanhui, KW - Chu, Yüan-hui, KW - 朱元晦, KW - Zhu, Zhonghui, KW - Chu, Chung-hui, KW - 朱仲晦, KW - Zhu, Hui'an, KW - Chu, Hui-an, KW - 朱晦庵, KW - Zhu, Huiweng, KW - Chu, Hui-weng, KW - 朱晦翁, KW - Zhu, Dunweng, KW - Chu, Tun-weng, KW - 朱遯翁, KW - Yungulaoren, KW - Yün-ku-lao-jen, KW - 云谷老人, KW - Cangzhoubingsou, KW - Tsʻang-chou-ping-sou, KW - 沧洲病叟, KW - Zhu, Ziyang, KW - Chu, Tzu-yang, KW - 朱紫陽, KW - 朱紫阳, KW - 朱熹 KW - Yen, Yüan, KW - Yan, Xizhai, KW - Zhu, Bangliang, KW - Siguren, KW - Yan, Yizhi, KW - Yen, Hsi-chai, KW - Chu, Pang-liang, KW - Ssu-ku-jen, KW - Yen, I-chih, KW - 顏元, KW - 顔元, KW - 颜元, KW - Political and social views. KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Adversaries. KW - China KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3536789 AB - Yan Yuan (1635-1704) has long been a controversial figure in the study of Chinese intellectual and cultural history. Although marginalized in his own time largely due to his radical attack on Zhu Xi (1130-1200), Yan was elevated to a great thinker during the early twentieth century because of the drastic changes of the modern Chinese intellectual climate. In Body, Ritual and Identity: A New Interpretation of the Early Qing Confucian Yan Yuan (1635-1704) , Yang Jui-sung has demonstrated that the complexity of Yan’s ideas and his hatred for Zhu Xi in particular need to be interpreted in light of his traumatic life experiences, his frustration over the fall of the Ming dynasty, and anxiety caused by the civil service examination system. Moreover, he should be better understood as a cultural critic of the lifestyle of educated elites of late imperial China. By critically analyzing Yan’s changing intellectual status and his criticism that the elite lifestyle was unhealthy and feminine, this new interpretation of Yan Yuan serves to shed new light on our understanding of the features as well as problems of educated elite culture in late imperial China. ER -