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Zhang Longxi, an internationally renowned scholar of Chinese and
comparative literature, is your guide to the three-millennia-long
history of Chinese literature from the remote antiquity of oracle
bones to contemporary works. Professor Zhang charts the development
of the major literary forms in Chinese, including poetry, prose,
song lyrics, and plays, and introduces the most famous poets and
writers and their representative texts. Taking a period-based
approach through the major dynasties, he places these forms, texts,
and authors within their historical contexts and tells the
fascinating story of Chinese literature with copious examples in
English translation. He writes in a clear and accessible style and
assumes no prior knowledge of Chinese history or Chinese
literature. This book is an ideal introduction for students and the
general readers who want to get a broad but thorough overview of
Chinese literature in all its richness and diversity.
* This book is an ideal introduction for students and the general
readers who want to get a broad but thorough overview of world
literature in all its richness and diversity; * Exposes neglected
texts in the study of world literature arguing that world
literature must go beyond Eurocentrism and expand the canon to
include great works from non-European and lesser known “minor”
European literatures; * Longxi Zhang is an experienced and
well-regarded author whose accessible writing will appeal to
students and researchers alike
Zhang Longxi, an internationally renowned scholar of Chinese and
comparative literature, is your guide to the three-millennia-long
history of Chinese literature from the remote antiquity of oracle
bones to contemporary works. Professor Zhang charts the development
of the major literary forms in Chinese, including poetry, prose,
song lyrics, and plays, and introduces the most famous poets and
writers and their representative texts. Taking a period-based
approach through the major dynasties, he places these forms, texts,
and authors within their historical contexts and tells the
fascinating story of Chinese literature with copious examples in
English translation. He writes in a clear and accessible style and
assumes no prior knowledge of Chinese history or Chinese
literature. This book is an ideal introduction for students and the
general readers who want to get a broad but thorough overview of
Chinese literature in all its richness and diversity.
New essays on the cultural representations of the relationship
between Britain and China in the nineteenth century, focussing on
the Amherst diplomatic problem. On 29 August 1816, Lord Amherst,
exhausted after travelling overnight during an embassy to China,
was roughly handled in an attempt to compel him to attend an
immediate audience with the Jiaqing Emperor at the Summer Palace of
Yuanming Yuan. Fatigued and separated from his diplomatic
credentials and ambassadorial robes, Amherst resisted, and left the
palace in anger. The emperor, believing he had been insulted,
dismissed the embassy without granting it animperial audience and
rejected its "tribute" of gifts. This diplomatic incident caused
considerable disquiet at the time. Some 200 years later, it is
timely in 2016 to consider once again the complex and vexed
historical andcultural relations between two of the
nineteenth-century world's largest empires. The interdisciplinary
essays in this volume engage with the most recent work on British
cultural representations of, and exchanges with, Qing
China,extending our existing but still provisional understandings
of this area of study in new and exciting directions. They cover
such subjects as female foot binding; English and Chinese pastoral
poetry; translations; representationsof the trade in tea and opium;
Tibet; and the political, cultural and environmental contexts of
the Amherst embassy itself. Featuring British and Chinese writers
such as Edmund Spenser, Wu Cheng'en, Thomas De Quincey, Oscar
Wilde, James Hilton, and Zhuangzi, these essays take forward the
compelling and highly relevant subject for today of Britain and
China's relationship. Peter J. Kitson is Professor of English at
the University of East Anglia;Robert Markley is W.D. and Sara E.
Trowbridge Professor of English at the University of Illinois.
Contributors: Elizabeth Chang, Peter J. Kitson, Eugenia
Zuroski-Jenkins, Zhang Longxi, Mingjun Lu, Robert Markley, EunKyung
Min, Q.S. Tong
Comparative Political Theory and Cross-Cultural Philosophy: Essays
in Honor of Hwa Yol Jung explores new forms of philosophizing in
the age of globalization by challenging the conventional border
between the East and the West, as well as the traditional
boundaries among different academic disciplines. The essays in this
volume examine diverse issues, encompassing globalization,
cosmopolitanism, public philosophy, political ecology,
ecocriticism, ethics of encounter, and aesthetics of caring. They
examine the philosophical traditions of phenomenology of Hursserl,
Merleau-Ponty, and Heidegger; the dialogism of Mikhail Bakhtin; the
philosophy of mestizaje literature; and Asian philosophical
traditions. This rich comparative and cross-cultural investigation
of philosophy and political theory demonstrates the importance of
cultural and cross-cultural understanding in our reading of
philosophical texts, exploring how cross-cultural thinking
transforms our understanding of the traditional philosophical
paradigm and political theory. This volume honors the scholarship
and philosophy of Hwa Yol Jung, who has been a pioneer in the field
of comparative political theory, cross-cultural philosophy, and
interdisciplinary scholarship. In one of his earliest publications,
The Crisis of Political Understanding (1979), Jung described the
urgency and necessity of breakthrough in political thinking as a
crisis, and he followed up on this issue for his half century of
scholarship by introducing Asian philosophy and political thought
to Western scholarship, demonstrating the possibility of
cross-cultural philosophical thinking. In his most recent
publications, Jung refers to this possibility as "transversality"
or "trans(uni)versality," a concept which should replace the
outmoded Eurocentric universality of modernist philosophy. Jung
expounds that in "transversality," "differences are negotiated and
compromised rather than effaced and absorbed into sameness." This
volume is a testimony to the very possibility of
Comparative Political Theory and Cross-Cultural Philosophy: Essays
in Honor of Hwa Yol Jung explores new forms of philosophizing in
the age of globalization by challenging the conventional border
between the East and the West, as well as the traditional
boundaries among different academic disciplines. The essays in this
volume examine diverse issues, encompassing globalization,
cosmopolitanism, public philosophy, political ecology,
ecocriticism, ethics of encounter, and aesthetics of caring. They
examine the philosophical traditions of phenomenology of Hursserl,
Merleau-Ponty, and Heidegger; the dialogism of Mikhail Bakhtin; the
philosophy of mestizaje literature; and Asian philosophical
traditions. This rich comparative and cross-cultural investigation
of philosophy and political theory demonstrates the importance of
cultural and cross-cultural understanding in our reading of
philosophical texts, exploring how cross-cultural thinking
transforms our understanding of the traditional philosophical
paradigm and political theory. This volume honors the scholarship
and philosophy of Hwa Yol Jung, who has been a pioneer in the field
of comparative political theory, cross-cultural philosophy, and
interdisciplinary scholarship. In one of his earliest publications,
The Crisis of Political Understanding (1979), Jung described the
urgency and necessity of breakthrough in political thinking as a
crisis, and he followed up on this issue for his half century of
scholarship by introducing Asian philosophy and political thought
to Western scholarship, demonstrating the possibility of
cross-cultural philosophical thinking. In his most recent
publications, Jung refers to this possibility as 'transversality'
or 'trans(uni)versality, ' a concept which should replace the
outmoded Eurocentric universality of modernist philosophy. Jung
expounds that in 'transversality, ' 'differences are negotiated and
compromised rather than effaced and absorbed into sameness.' This
volume is a testimony to the very possibility of transversality in
our scholarship and thinking.
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