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

Reflecting on the "clash of civilizations" as its point of departure, this book is based on a series of sixteen of the author's interconnected, thematically focused lectures and calls for new perspectives to resist imperialistic homogeneity.

List of contents

1. The Context of the Times: The Clash of Civilizations and the Future 2. The Neo-Humanism for the Twenty-first Century 3. The Transformation of the Post-Modernist Ethos and a New Platform for Literary Studies 4. The American, European, and Chinese Dreams: An Example of Cultural Transformation 5. Thoughts on Comparative Literature and World Literature 6. Interactive Cognition: The Case of Literature-Science Interaction 7. Interactive Cognition and Mutual Interpretation 8. Difference and Dialogue 9. Chinese Culture and the Reconstruction of World Culture 10. The Interpenetration of Sinology and Guoxue 11. The Three Phases of the Development of Comparative Literature 12. “The Death of Comparative Literature” and Its Regeneration 13. The Beginning and Early Development of Comparative Literature in China from 1900 to 1910 14. Where to, Where from, and When: The Quest of Wang Guowei 15. The Enquiries of Lu Xun in His Early Years 16. Zhu Guangqian and His Contribution to Comparative Literature in China

About the author

YUE Daiyun is a distinguished, award-winning professor at Peking University, China. She specializes in comparative literature and has dozens of highly influential publications in the field of comparative culture and beyond.

Summary

Reflecting on the "clash of civilizations" as its point of departure, this book is based on a series of sixteen of the author’s interconnected, thematically focused lectures and calls for new perspectives to resist imperialistic homogeneity.

Product details

• Authors: Yue Daiyun
• Assisted by: Ian Hunter (Translation), Hunter Ian (Translation), Harry Kuoshu (Translation), Xiangchun Meng (Translation)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.2022
• EAN: 9781032410968
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3241096-8
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: China Perspectives
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); China, Cultural Studies, HISTORY / Civilization, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Asia / China, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese, Regional Studies, Social and cultural history, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Regional / International studies, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000