The Mythistorical Chinese Scholar-Rebel-Advisor Li Yan

A Global Perspective, 1606-2018
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-42105-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 12, 570 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 953 g

Reihe: Leiden Series in Comparative Historiography

Roger Des Forges here examines the puzzle of Li Yan, a Chinese scholar who advised the rebel Li Zicheng (1605-1645), and helped him to overthrow the Ming, only to die at his hands. For more than three centuries, Li Yan’s identity and even existence were seriously questioned. Then, in 2004, there was discovered a genealogical manuscript which includes a Li Yan (1606-1644). He now appears to be the principal historical reality behind the Li Yan story, which became a powerful metaphor for the rise and fall of Li Zicheng’s rebellion. Offering a fresh theory of Chinese and world history, the author elucidates Li Yan’s historical significance by comparing and contrasting him with similar figures in other times and places around the globe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Des Forges, Roger V

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Roger Des Forges (Ph.D. Yale, 1971) is Professor of History Emeritus, University at Buffalo (SUNY). Among many other publications, he authored Cultural Centrality and Political Change in Chinese History: Northeast Henan in the Fall of the Ming(Stanford, 2003) and co-edited Representing Lives in China: Forms of Biography in the Ming-Qing Period (1368-1911) (Cornell, 2018).