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Towers in the Void: Li Yu and Early Modern Chinese MediaBy S. E. Kile. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. 371 pp. $35.00 (paper), $140.00 (cloth), $34.99 (ebook)

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Towers in the Void: Li Yu and Early Modern Chinese MediaBy S. E. Kile. New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. 371 pp. $35.00 (paper), $140.00 (cloth), $34.99 (ebook)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2025

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Journal of Chinese History 中國歷史學刊 , First View , pp. 1 - 3
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References

1 W. J. T. Mitchell and Mark B. N. Hansen, eds., Critical Terms for Media Studies (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010), vii.

2 Along with Patrick Hanan’s foundational studies on Li Yu, his translations of Li Yu’s works, and his monograph The Invention of Li Yu (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988), worthy of note are, for example, Chun-shu Chang and Shelley Hsueh-lun Chang’s Crisis and Transformation in Seventeenth-Century China: Society, Culture, and Modernity in Li Yu’s World (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992); and Jing Shen and Robert Hegel’s translation of A Couple of Soles: A Comic Play from Seventeenth-Century China (New York: Columbia University Press, 2019). Li Yu and his works also figure prominently in studies such as Dorothy Ko’s Cinderella’s Sisters: A Revisionist History of Footbinding (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005), Tina Lu’s Accidental Incest, Filial Cannibalism, and Other Peculiar Encounters in Late Imperial Chinese Literature (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008), and Wai-yee Li’s The Promise and Peril of Things: Literature and Material Culture in Late Imperial China (New York: Columbia University Press, 2022).