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Yuan regardedLi’s writing food,forexample, as “profoundly on artificial,” his overrefinement strict and rulessuggesting poseur a ratherthana man who genuinely graspedhissubject(seeJonathan Roundabout Spence, Chinese [New York: Norton, 1992], pp. 181-82). WhetherLi’s departures from of convention deservetheepithet “modern,” as theChangs insist,is open to question. A tendency inflate to significance,to claim too much – applyingtermslike “transformation”and ”scientific revolution”to theseventeenth century lendsthebook a touch ofthehard sell.
The authors have servedLi better portraying him might by as a peacock ratherthan a phoenix, and his age as a gardenratherthan a heaven. But ifthe tone ofthebook goes awry,itssubstancelargelyholds. The Changs have exploredthe richculturalworldof thisera more intenthanpreviousauthors, and enthusiasts theseventeenth of will sively century as benefit greatly theyrange over thislandscape withtheirbook in hand.
