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.
Situated within a neo-humanist context, the book applies interactive cognition from an Asian perspective within which China can be perceived as an essential “other,” making it highly relevant in the quest for global solutions to the many grave issues facing mankind today. The author critiques American, European, and Chinese points of view; highlighting the significance of difference and the necessity of dialogue; before ultimately, rethinking the nature of world literature and putting forward interactive cognition as a means of “reconciliation” between cultures. Chinese culture, as a frame of reference endowed with traditions of “harmony without homogeneity”, may help to alleviate global cultural confrontation and even reconstruct the understanding of human civilization.
The book will be essential reading for scholars and students of Comparative Literature, Chinese Studies, and all those who are interested in cross-cultural communication and Chinese culture in general.
Author(s): Yue Daiyun
Series: China Perspectives
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 213
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of table
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
