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Tower for the Summer Heat (Updated Edition) by Li Yu, Patrick Hanan (Translator), Columbia University Press, Yü Li Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1998 ISBN-10: 0-231-11385-4 / 0231113854 ISBN-13: 978-0-231-11385-4 / 9780231113854 The stories of Li Yu (161 1-1680) all claim to challenge traditional themes and conventional assumptions.1 More than any other writer in premodern China, he stressed the absolute need in literature to "make it new." (And not only in literature — inventiveness had be applied to all spheres of life |