The Invention of Li Yu

by Patrick Hanan

Li Yu, 1610-1680, was a brilliant comic writer and entertainer, a thoroughgoing professional whose life was in his work-plays, stories, a novel, criticism, essays, and poems. Patrick Hanan places him in the society of his day, where even his precarious livelihood, his constant search for patronage, did not dampen his versatility, his irreverent wit, or his jocund spirit. Li was also an epicure, an inventor, a pundit, and a designer of houses and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674332261
• ISBN13: 9780674332263
• Release Date: February 1988
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 281 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"