Chinese Thought in a Multi-cultural World: Cross-Cultural Communication, Comparative Literature and Beyond

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Table of Contents
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Foreword
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: The Context of the Times: The Clash of Civilizations and the Future
	1.1 A Review of “the Clash of Civilizations”
		1.1.1 Huntington’s Theory of “The Clash of Civilizations”
		1.1.2 The Development of the “Clash of Civilizations” Theory: The Publication of Empire
		1.1.3 The Theory of “New Empire”: The Emergence of Postmodern Neo-imperialism
	1.2 New Trends Resisting Imperial Homogeneity
		1.2.1 Edgar Morin and His “Beyond Globalization and Development”
		1.2.2 Efforts Against Unilateralism and Towards European Renaissance
		1.2.3 The Conception of Global Civil Society
	1.3 The Thought Pattern of Interactive Cognition and the Oriental Turn
		1.3.1 The Transformation of Cognitive Style
		1.3.2 Interactive Cognition
		1.3.3 François Jullien and His “Why We Westerners Cannot Avoid China in Our Study of Philosophy”
		1.3.4 Roger T. Ames and David L. Hall and Their Thinking Through Confucius, among Others
		1.3.5 The Eastern Ideal in E. F. Schumacher’s Small Is Beautiful
	Notes
	References
Chapter 2: The Neo-Humanism for the Twenty-first Century
	2.1 What Is Humanism?
	2.2 Why Is Neo-Humanism Relevant Today?
	2.3 Fundamentals of Neo-humanism
	Notes
	References
Chapter 3: The Transformation of the Post-Modernist Ethos and a New Platform for Literary Studies
	3.1 The Transformation of the Post-modernist Ethos
	3.2 Contemplations on Literary Studies of the New Era
	3.3 Issues to be Addressed
	References
Chapter 4: The American, European, and Chinese Dreams: An Example of Cultural Transformation
	4.1 What Is the American Dream?
	4.2 What Is the European Dream?
	4.3 Can “the Chinese Dream” Define a New Historical Era?
	References
Chapter 5: Thoughts on Comparative Literature and World Literature
	5.1 Fresh Insights into Evolving Comparative Literature and World Literature
	5.2 What Is World Literature?
	5.3 Comparative Literature and World Literature
	5.4 Emerging Theoretical Questions
	References
Chapter 6: Interactive Cognition: The Case of Literature–Science Interaction
	6.1 Two Patterns of Cognition
	6.2 Natural Sciences and the Humanities
	6.3 Literature and Natural Sciences
	Note
	References
Chapter 7: Interactive Cognition and Mutual Interpretation
	7.1 Logical Cognition and Cognition-in-Interaction
	7.2 Mutual Interpretation and China as the “Other”
	Note
	References
Chapter 8: Difference and Dialogue
	8.1 The Three Encounters Between China and the West
	8.2 Why Are Differences Important?
	8.3 Coexistence Among Differences
	8.4 The Paradox of Dialogue
	8.5 Dialogue, Difference, and Comparative Literature
	Note
	References
Chapter 9: Chinese Culture and the Reconstruction of World Culture
	9.1 The Complex Situations of Today
	9.2 The Western Understanding of the Current Cultural Crisis
	9.3 China’s Need for Sincere Cultural Consciousness
	9.4 Traditional Chinese Culture as a Possible Cure for Cultural Conflicts
		9.4.1 The Core Idea of “Harmony without Homogeneity”
		9.4.2 Indeterminacy and the Conception of a World Created Out of Chaos
		9.4.3 Thought Patterns that Encourage Diversity
		9.4.4 The Relationship between Man and Society
	References
Chapter 10: The Interpenetration of Sinology and Guoxue
	10.1 The Three Phases of Sinology
	10.2 The Intersection between Sinology and Guoxue
	Notes
	References
Chapter 11: The Three Phases of the Development of Comparative Literature
	11.1 The First Phase
	11.2 The Second Phase
	11.3 The Third Phase
	Notes
	References
Chapter 12: “The Death of Comparative Literature” and Its Regeneration
	12.1 “The Death of Comparative Literature ” and the New Turn
	12.2 The Regeneration of the Discipline: A Chinese Idea for the Third Phase
	Note
	References
Chapter 13: The Beginning and Early Development of Comparative Literature in China from 1900 to 1910
	13.1 Emerging from the Study and Translation of Novels
	13.2 The Positioning of Comparative Literature in Time-Space Coordinates
	13.3 Know Thyself and Others, and Absorb the Best of the Present and the Past 5
	Notes
	References
Chapter 14: Where to, Where from, and When: The Quest of Wang Guowei
	14.1 Going Beyond Disputes Over the Old vs. the New and China vs. the West
	14.2 Chinese Literature in an Integrated, Inclusive Cultural Context
	14.3 Wang Guowei’s New Insights into Chinese Literary Criticism
	Note
	References
Chapter 15: The Enquiries of Lu Xun in His Early Years
	15.1 Lu Xun as a Youth in Japan
	15.2 “Self-examination, Knowing Others, Sound Comparison, and Self-Consciousness”
	15.3 Inclusiveness and the Establishment of a New Tradition
	15.4 Cross-Multicultural Literary Studies
	Note
	References
Chapter 16: Zhu Guangqian and His Contribution to Comparative Literature in China
	16.1 Zhu’s Accumulated, Inclusive Cultural Consciousness and Literacy
	16.2 “All Values are Derived from Comparison”
	16.3 On Poetry : The Pioneering Work on Sino-Western Comparative Poetics
	16.4 Zhu’s Elucidations
	Notes
	References
Index