Xiaoqiao Ling is Associate Professor of Chinese at Arizona State University.
Carefully structured, consistently argued, and elegantly written,
Feeling the Past certainly piques [the] reader’s interest in and
advances our understanding of the traumatic Ming–Qing dynastic
transition as well as the literati’s lived experiences and memory
of the trying times.
*Canadian Journal of History*
A powerful account that effectively prompts us to relive the pain
and suffering of those embroiled in the bloody and chaotic dynastic
transition occurring five hundred years earlier…If drawing
attention to bodily sensations—experienced as well as remembered—is
her goal, then Ling has surely achieved it quite successfully.
*Chinese Historical Studies*
The strength of Ling’s book is surely in its fine translations and
detailed exploration of the trauma literature of the second half of
the seventeenth century in China, forming a worthy successor to the
work of Lynn Struve that first introduced the works of Ding Yaokang
and Wang Xiuchu to nonspecialists on the era.
*China Review International*
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