China and the West at the Crossroads: Essays on Comparative Literature and Culture

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Establishment of the Discipline and Its Champions: Chen Yinke—Qian Zhongshu—Zhu Guangqian—Zong Baihua....Pages 3-29
A New Beginning for China’s Comparative Literature: Qian Zhongshu’s Limited Views—The Establishment of the Chinese Comparative Literature Association....Pages 31-64
Enter the International Cultural Dialogue Pro-Actively with Uniqueness and Originality....Pages 65-74
Problems and the Current Development Status of Chinese Comparative Literature....Pages 75-80
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History—Literature—Literary History: A Distinguished Meeting on Comparative Literature in the 1980s....Pages 87-92
Renovating Methodology: The Development of Hermeneutics and Comparative Literature....Pages 93-93
Linking Up with the Perspicacity of Foreign Climes: André Gide and His Chinese Doctoral Student, Zhang Ruoming....Pages 95-106
The Last Decadent in China: Shanghai’s Shao Xunmei....Pages 107-112
Nietzsche and Modern Chinese Literature....Pages 113-121
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Using the Wisdom of the East to Resolve Cultural Conflict....Pages 127-139
Some Special Features of China’s Traditional Literary Criticism....Pages 141-144
“Harmony, Homogeneity” and Literary Research....Pages 145-151
The Mirror Metaphor in Chinese and Western Poetics....Pages 153-178
Lunar Appreciation and Legends Across Different Cultures....Pages 179-179
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Looking at Yangtze River Culture Through the Legend of the Goddess of Mount Wu....Pages 193-199
Revenge and Memory....Pages 201-208
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The International and National Nature of Comparative Literature....Pages 217-226
Poetics and Eurocentrism: In Memory of Yang Zhouhan....Pages 227-231
The Question of Discourse in the Dialog Between Chinese and Western Poetics....Pages 179-179
Cultural Difference and Cultural Misunderstanding....Pages 233-238
Misreadings in the Search for Commonality Between Chinese and Western Culture....Pages 239-241
“Death of a Discipline” and the Birth of a Discipline....Pages 243-245
Escaping the Trap of Modernity....Pages 247-247
Will “Sino-Centrism” Succeed “Eurocentrism”?....Pages 249-258
Comparative Literature in the Era of Globalization—The Chinese Perspective....Pages 259-264
Front Matter....Pages 265-273
The New Humanist Spirit of the Twenty-First Century....Pages 275-278
On the Third Phase of the Development of Comparative Literature....Pages 279-282
An Alternative Globalization on the Basis of Reflection and Negotiation....Pages 283-287
New Opportunities in Twenty-First Century Literary Research....Pages 289-291
New Humanism and Postmodernism....Pages 293-295
A Few Thoughts on Comparative Literature and World Literature....Pages 297-305
The Urgency and Difficulty of Cross-cultural Dialog....Pages 307-307
New Thoughts on Ecological Civilization....Pages 309-319
Front Matter....Pages 321-330
Looking into the Future....Pages 331-335
Back Matter....Pages 337-343
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