Symptoms of an Unruly Age: Li Zhi and Cultures of Early ModernitySymptoms of an Unruly Age compares the writings of Li Zhi (1527 1602) and his late Ming compatriots to texts composed by their European contemporaries, including Montaigne, Shakespeare, and Cervantes. Emphasizing aesthetic patterns that transcend national boundaries, Rivi Handler Spitz explores these works as culturally distinct responses to similar social and economic tensions affecting early modern cultures on both ends of Eurasia. The paradoxes,