About the author
Lynn A. Struve is a historian of late imperial China, long associated with Indiana University, whose research centers on the Ming-Qing transition and the intellectual and cultural life of seventeenth-century China. Her book listed here, The Dreaming Mind and the End of the Ming World, published by University of Hawai'i Press, examines the unusual attention Chinese writers of that period paid to dreams and dreaming across a wide range of genres, treating the subject as a lens onto a society undergoing dynastic collapse. Struve approaches the material as cultural history rather than as a study of the supernatural in its own right, situating dream narratives within the political and social upheaval of the Ming-to-Qing transition. Her work is aimed at readers interested in Chinese intellectual history and in how dream literature has been used to process catastrophe and change.
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“Struve provides a rigorous academic exploration that may prove dense for casual readers or those seeking straightforward historical narratives. The text assumes familiarity with late Ming socio-political dynamics and literary…”
Esoterica Books editorial team, Occult literature desk · on The Dreaming Mind and the End of the Ming World
“This insightful cultural history meticulously charts the fascination with dreams among Chinese intellectuals during the Ming-Qing transition. While it offers profound glimpses into human consciousness, it is strictly an academic…”
Esoterica Books editorial team, Occult literature desk · on The Dreaming Mind and the End of the Ming World
