Robert Foyle Hunwick reviews Behaving Badly in Early and Medieval China Behaving Badly in Early and Medieval China, edited by Harry Rothschild and Leslie Wallace, is a dirty baker’s dozen of essays featuring the kind of “impious monks, cutthroat underlings, ill-bred offspring, depraved poet-literati, devious scofflaws, and disloyal officials” needed for a broad study of medieval mischief. The period under scrutiny is fairly broad, beginning with the violent unification of China by Qin S...
