Index
Page numbers followed by n indicate footnotes (82n9). Names of fictional characters are alphabetized by the first element of their name, e.g. please find “Lin Daiyu (character)” under L, and “Pavel Korchagin (character)” under P. Titles of works are given in italics, with inverted articles (such as A, The, Die, Der, El, La), e.g. Art of Chinese Poetry, The; neue Menoza, Der.
Abel-Rémusat, J.P.
4
Abrams, M.H.
25
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
158–159
aesthetic reading
199
aesthetic worldedness
238
Age of Silver
135, 137
“age of the poets”
74, 75–77, 78, 79–80, 81, 90
Age of the Poets: And Other Writings on Twentieth-Century Poetry and Prose, The
73–74, 75, 76–77, 82
Ai Qing
83
Airs of the States
102, 112
Aku Tonpa (character)
238
Alai
227–228, 229–232, 233–234, 236–241, 242
Alarcos Llorach, Emilio
27
Aleixandre, Vicente
27
Allen, Joseph
114
All For Love
62
alliteration
26, 27
Altenburger, Roland
104
Ambassadors, The
159, 160
America see United States
American, The
159
American literature
82n9, 153, 157–161, 168–169, 192
American school of comparative literature
1, 2, 195
American Transcendentalism
157
Analects of Confucius
22, 128, 129, 161, 162
Anderson, Sherwood
153
Anderson, Susan
54
Anmerkungen übers Theater
58
anthologies, of world literature
179, 184–185, 184n6
anti-communism
192
anti-imperialism
63, 182, 222
antithetical parallelism
29, 30
Antony and Cleopatra
60, 62
Apter, Emily
196
Aristotle
23–24, 25
Arthur Burton (character) see Gadfly (Arthur Burton, character)
artificial intelligence
123–124, 125
Art of Chinese Poetry, The
39
atheism
91–92, 214
Atwood, Margaret
227
Auerbach, Erich
192
Augie March (character)
158
Aureng-zebe
59, 62
autobiographical literature see lyrical poetry
Badiou, Alain
71–79, 72n2, 81–85, 86–88, 89–90, 91, 92
Bai Juyi
184
Bakhtin, Mikhail
237
Balzac, Honoré de
153, 155–156
Ban Gu
116
banning see censorship; de-canonization and banning
Banzhuren (The Class Monitor)
222
Bao-qin (character)
142
Baoyu (character)
139, 166, 167–168
“barbarians”
102, 104, 105, 107, 120, 143, 146, 147, 240
Ba Ren
220–221
Barlow, Tani
89–90
Basilikon Doron
60
Bassnett, Susan
195, 196, 212
Bei Dao
78
Beilin, I.
222
Bellow, Saul
158
Bellum Tartaricum
62
belonging
102, 165
Bender, Lucas
36
Benjamin, Walter
185
Benn, Aphra
61
Bernheimer report
194–195
Bickerstaffe, Isaac
63, 64, 65
Bildungsroman
68, 152, 153, 154–155, 155n2, 156
Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative)
160–161
biographical literature see lyrical poetry
Birus, Hendrik
4–5
Boncardo, Robert
84
Book of Documents (Shangshu 尚書)
35
Book of Poetry
24, 27
Børdahl, Vibeke
104
Borges, Jorge Luis
90–91
Bosteels, Bruno
84
British literature see Great Britain
Brontë, Charlotte
153
Bruns, Gerald
82
Buddhism
162, 166, 168, 235
Callimachus
38, 41
Campbell, Joseph
231
Candide
154
canonization
Chinese
102, 103, 112, 120, 186, 195
de-canonization and banning
182, 213, 222
politicization
222, 223
regional
211, 213, 221
world literature
125–126, 183–184, 198, 211, 223–224, 238
Canton
142, 146
Cao Cao
44n6
Cao Xueqin
138, 141–142, 154, 165–166, 165–166n6, 184
capitalism
and communism/socialism
83, 86, 87, 138, 147–148, 229
rise of global
134, 135, 147–148, 229, 232, 236
Carlyle, Thomas
153
Carmina
34, 36
carpe diem
37, 44
Carson, Anne
76, 82
Cartesianism (Descartes, René)
91, 92
Casanova, Pascale
5, 108–109, 183, 200
Castle, Gregory
156
Catullus
38, 41
Celan, Paul
74, 76–77, 78, 79, 80, 90
Celoso extremeño, El (The Jealousy)
63
censorship
84, 222–223
center and periphery
China-internal
102, 104, 110, 111, 120
literary
136, 200, 205–206
world economy
135
Cervantes, Miguel de
61, 63
Chagaev (character)
220
Changgan xing 長 干行 (“Travelling to Chang gan”)
38n4
Charles ii, King of England
61
Chen Huei-hua
193
Chen Jitong
180
Chen Shixiang
35
Chen Zhengxiang
103
China see pan-Siniticism; Sinocentrism; Sinosphere
China, position in world economy
134, 135, 137–138, 141, 145–146, 148, 180, 183
China Youth Press
211, 213, 217
Chinese, classical see literary Sinitic
Chinese Communist Party (ccp)
72, 88, 192, 193
Chinese Comparative Literature Association (ccla)
176
“Chinese Culture Going Global” (中华文化走出去)
185, 185n8
“Chinese Dream” 中国梦
119
Chinese language
literary Sinitic
102, 105, 107, 110–111, 112, 119, 120
Old and Middle Chinese
109–110, 113
use of Mandarin Chinese by Alai
228, 229
Western views on
200–201
See also regional languages of China
Chinese literature
definition (words for literature)
128–131
as national literature
184, 227
overseas
185–186, 186n9
Taiwanese
194, 199–200, 202, 205–206
unification see literary Sinitic
Western theories applied to
193, 194, 196, 197
as world literature
126–127, 182, 183–186, 200, 202
Chineseness
85, 101, 107, 186, 229
Chinese school of comparative literature
3–4, 175, 180, 193
Chinese-Western comparative studies see East-West comparative studies
Chinesische Sittenlehrer, Der
56
Chi Pang-yuan
199–200, 200n2
Chiu Kuei-fen
194, 200
Christian Turned Turk, A
61
Christopher Newman (character)
159
Chu ci 楚辭 see Songs/Lyrics of Chu (Chu ci 楚辭)
Chu Li-min
192
Chung Wai Literary Monthly (Zhongwai Wenxue)
192, 193, 193n1, 194
Cid, Le
64
Citizen of the World, The
54
civic drama
54, 63, 65, 67–68
Clarissa
67
class see social class
classical Chinese see literary Sinitic
Classic of Poetry (Shijing 詩經)
35
See also Odes (Chinese)
Class Monitor, The (Banzhuren)
222
“Climbing up the terrace” (Deng gao 登高)
29
Cold War
192, 223
colonialism
Chinese internal
229
Japanese, of Taiwan
199, 200
Western
5, 54, 60, 108, 236
Comédie humaine, La
156
Commager, Steele
37
communism
anti-communism
192
Chinese
72, 87, 88, 138, 192, 193, 221
France
72
and poetry
82–85
Soviet Union
72, 85
Communist Manifesto, The
83, 134, 147–148, 182
Communist Youth League of China
221
comparative literature
American school
1, 2, 195
Chinese school
3–4, 175, 180, 193
comparative poetics
21–23, 25, 26, 50, 185
construction of comparables
127, 131
definition
2
methodology
2–3, 17–18, 19, 20–21, 22–23, 31, 201
and national literatures
18
reading literarily/aesthetically
196, 198, 199
Taiwan
192–194, 195–197, 199, 205–206
and translations
196, 197, 198
world-systems theory
135, 136, 137
See also Eurocentrism
Comparative Literature Association of the Republic of China (claroc)
193
Comparative Literature in China (clc)
176, 178, 182, 185
Confucianism
and Daoism
43, 162–163
Neo-Confucianism
91
principles
42, 43, 46, 56, 100, 128
scholar-officials
163–164, 166, 167
Confucius
5, 22, 88, 100, 161, 162, 184
See also Analects of Confucius
Connery, Christopher
85
Cooke, Bryan
84
Cooper, James Fenimore
153, 158
Corneille, Pierre
64, 65
cosmopolitanism
Chinese
138
Goethe’s
134, 136–137, 198, 229
Western
100, 120, 147–148
Cowley, Hannah
63–64, 65
Croce, Benedetto
22
Culler, Jonathan
34
Cultural Revolution
73, 78, 83–89, 87–88n11, 222–223
Da, Nan Z.
88n11
Daborne, Robert
61
Damrosch, David
176, 179, 183, 184, 198, 203, 239
Danish literature
55
See also Menoza
Dao De Jing
201
Daoism
and Buddhism
80
concepts
19, 37, 42, 46, 101, 111, 167
and Confucianism
43, 162–163
sage in narrative
166, 168
David, Jérôme
5
Davis, Paul
179
Day in Turkey, A; or, The Russian Slaves
63, 65
Dazhong Dianying (Popular Film)
221
Decaglottismus
5
de-canonization and banning
182, 213, 222
Deeney, John J.
3, 193
Deleuze, Gilles
72n2, 74
Demian
152
Denecke, Wiebke
111, 114
Deng gao 登高 (“Climbing up the terrace”)
29
Deng Xiaoping
87
denitiation
153–154, 156, 159, 160, 165, 168
Derrida, Jacques
201
Descartes, René (Cartesianism)
91, 92
Detienne, Marcel
127
D’haen, Theo
4, 6, 179
di 狄
105, 107
dialects see regional languages of China
“Dialogue Between a Chinese Philosopher and a French Philosopher”
71–72, 73, 91
“Diary of a Madman, The”
125
Dibdin, Charles
63
Dickens, Charles
153
differentiation
233, 239–241, 242
Dilthey, Wilhelm
156
disunion
100, 102, 113, 119
Don Diana (character)
55, 57
Dongfeng (east wind)
137–138, 138n4
Dong Zhongshu
106
Don Quixote
61
Dorothea Brooke (character)
155
Dream of the Red Chamber (Honglou meng 紅樓夢)
close reading
137–141, 142–143, 165–168
historical context
127, 134, 143–144, 145, 146, 149, 149n7–8, 165–166n6
Dryden, John
59, 62
Du Fu
28–29, 36, 184
Duo Duo
78–79, 80, 82, 83–84, 90
Ďurišin, Dionýz
195
Du Taiqing
113
Eagleton, Terry
183
East-West comparative studies
history of
17–19
methodology
2–3, 21, 31, 201
Taiwan
192–193
Eat a Bowl of Tea
186
Eckermann, Johann Peter
4, 134, 137, 144, 177, 197
Education sentimentale, L’
153
Eliot, George
153, 155
Eliot, T.S.
159
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
157, 160
Emilia Galotti
67, 68, 69
“Encountering Sorrow” (Li Sao 離騷)
38
end rhyme see rhyme
Engels, Friedrich
134, 147–148, 182
England see Great Britain
Enlightenment
54, 56, 58, 59, 64
epic poetry
34, 35, 40, 41
epics, national
125, 227, 230, 238
Epicureanism
40, 44, 45, 46, 47, 49
ethnicity
Britishness
195
Chineseness
85, 101, 107, 186, 229
Han vs. non-Han
62, 104, 113, 227, 229
and identity
101, 105–107, 120, 195, 232, 240–241
minzu
226–227, 228
performative
232
Sinitic vs. non-Sinitic
102, 115, 116, 117–118, 120
Tibetan
227, 228, 240–241
zhuxia 諸夏
103, 105–107, 111, 117
ethnocentrism
4, 90, 143, 205
See also Eurocentrism; Sinocentrism
Etiemble, René
3
Eugène de Rastignac (character)
155–156
Euripides
65
Eurocentrism
critique of
2, 3, 4–5, 108, 183
and minzu
242
moving away from
136, 191–192, 202, 204, 205
Europe
as the Old World
157, 159–160
position in world economy
135, 137
exoticism
230, 232, 241, 242
experience vs. innocence
153, 154, 157, 159–161, 165, 167
“Fairy Spring beyond the World”
166
Fang Weigui
177, 178
Fan Jin
177
Faust
69, 198
feeling
57–58, 59, 61, 62, 64–66, 68
Fei Xiaotong
103n1
film adaptations
211, 221
Flaubert, Gustave
153
Flowers of Evil, The
125
Fong, Grace
38
foreign objects
134, 137, 138–142, 145–146, 149
formalism
195
Forrest Gump
161
Fortunate Union, The (Haoqiu zhuan)
144
Foucault, Michel
72n2, 201
Fraleigh, Mathew
110–111
France
literary studies
2, 3, 4, 195
literature and theater
64–66, 67, 69, 152–153
philosophy
71–72, 72–73n2, 73n3, 91–92
politics
72, 86, 146
Frank, Andre Gunder
135
freedom
lyrical poetry
39, 43, 45, 46, 48–49, 50
novels
158, 159, 167, 168
theater
64
Frenz, Horst
2
Freud, Sigmund
22
Frost, Robert
22
fu 賦
28, 38, 38n5, 116, 118
Gadamer, Hans-Georg
204
Gadfly (Arthur Burton, character)
211, 214–219, 220–221, 222, 223
Gadfly, The
210–212, 213, 214–221, 222–223
Gao E
166n6
Garfield, Jay L.
73
Ge Baoquan
20
Gemma (character)
215, 218
George iii, King of England
134, 145
German literature and theater
64, 66–69, 152–153
See also neue Menoza, Der
Germany
2, 55, 57, 192
Gernet, Jacques
201
Gesar (character)
227, 230–232, 234–235, 237, 238
Gling (fictional place)
230, 231, 233–235, 236, 238
globalization
195, 226, 232, 236
See also capitalism: rise of global
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Bildungsroman
152, 154, 155, 156
and Lenz
69
and Marx
147, 148
national literatures
127, 198, 229
reading Chinese literature
4, 5, 134, 136–137, 144–145, 177, 197
“worldliness”
181
world literature (Weltliteratur)
4–5, 131, 176–177, 179, 180, 183, 184, 198
“Golden Age”
55, 56, 58–59, 68, 113, 165
Golden Bowl, The
160
“Golden Rule”
226, 228
goldne Spiegel, Der
56
Goldsmith, Oliver
54
Gongsun Longzi 公孫龍子
100
Good Sons of the People (Renmin de Hao Erzi)
223
Gorky, Maxim
217
Gottsched, Johann Christoph
66
Götz von Berlichingen
69
Grandmother Jia (character)
139–140, 141
Grannie Liu (character)
138–139
Great Britain
Britishness
195
and China
145–146, 148
literary studies
67, 211
literature
135, 153
theater
54, 60–64, 65, 67, 69
Great Expectations
153
Greece
ethnocentrism
143
literature
23–25, 35, 36, 37–38, 39
Greene, Robert
61
grungkan
237, 238
Guan Zhong
105
Guan zhui bian
19–20, 200
Guattari, Félix
74
Guidelines of Literature (wenxue dagang 文学大纲)
180
Guillén, Claudio
17–18, 19, 20, 26, 27, 30, 193, 229
Guo Moruo
83
Guo Xiang
42
Hai Rui Dismissed from Office (海瑞罢官)
88
Hamann, Johann Georg
57, 58
Hamburger, Kate
34
Han vs. non-Han
62, 104, 113, 227, 229
See also Sinitic vs. non-Sinitic
Han Yu
22
Hau Kiou Choaan, or The Pleasing History (Haoqiu zhuan)
144
Hawkes, David
140
Hayot, Eric
238
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
19–20, 34, 200–201, 240
Heidegger, Martin
74, 79, 80, 185, 201
He Linyi
110n4
Heller, Erich
79n6
Hemingway, Ernest
153, 158
Herder, Johann Gottfried
69, 127
Hermann und Dorothea
197
Hermans, Theo
203
heroes
Byronic
222
humanization
230–231
revolutionary
217–218, 220–221, 222, 223
See also denitiation; initiation narratives
Hesse, Hermann
152
Heubel, Fabian
201–202
Hippolytus
65
Holden Caulfield (character)
158
Hollow Mountain
239
Homer
35, 125, 152
Hong Kong
3, 192
Honglou meng 紅樓夢 see Dream of the Red Chamber (Honglou meng 紅樓夢)
Horace
34, 36, 37–42, 43, 44–47, 48, 49–50
Horace (play)
64–65
How the Steal was Tempered
213, 220
Hsiao Shih-yi
201
Hsün Shuang
106
Hua
102, 105, 115
Huang, Yiju
86
Huang Chun-chieh
205
Huang Ren
181
Huckleberry Finn (character)
158–159
Hugo, Victor
146–147
humanism
100, 120, 148, 155, 162, 222
humanization, of heroes
230–231
Humboldtian model
128
Hung Shi-hui
230
Hutchinson, Ben
19
Hu Wujing
109
Hu Yao-heng
194
idealism
56, 57, 155, 157
identity
ethnic
101, 105–107, 120, 195, 232, 240–241
See also ethnicity
literary
111, 127
national
100, 119, 120, 181, 198, 205, 240
politics
194–195, 199, 229
regional
101, 104, 115, 119
transnational cultural
178, 186
ideology, effects on literature see censorship; de-canonization and banning; rewritings
Immanence of Truths, The
86
imperialism
5, 119, 182
See also anti-imperialism
Inchbald, Elizabeth
64
India
54, 55, 63, 162
initiation narratives
152–154
See also denitiation
innocence vs. experience
153, 154, 157, 159–161, 165, 167
Inoue Tetsujirō
125
In the Event of Women
89, 90n14
Iorio, Dominick A.
91–92
Irene
66
Isabel Archer (character)
159
Ishmael (character)
160
Jakobson, Roman
26, 27, 28
James, Henry
159–160
James i, King of England
60
Jameson, Fredric
79, 79n6
Jane Eyre
153
Japan
120, 125, 135, 204–205
Japanese language
110–111, 114, 128, 143
Jealousy, The (El Celoso extremeño)
63
Jiang Ningkang
178
Jiang Qing
88
Jiangxi poetic school of the Southern Song
103
Jia Zheng (character)
166
Ji Dan
88
Jigmed (character)
237, 238
Ji Kang
163
Jin Kemu
103
Jin Ping Mei (The Plum in the Golden Vase)
136, 137
Ji Shao
163
John Claggart (character)
160
Johnson, Samuel
154
John Ward (character)
61
Joris, Pierre
76
Julius von Tarent
69
Jullien, François
201
Jürgen Habermas
124
Juyuan (Shan Tao)
163
Kadir, Djelal
179
Kanayama, Yasuhira Yahei
90n15
Kant, Immanuel
57
Kao, Yu-kung
28
Karl, Rebecca E.
85, 87–88n11
Karlgren, Bernhard
113
Kermode, Frank
22
Kindermörderin, Die
69
King, Ross
111
Klinger, Friedrich Maximilian von
69
Knechtges, David R.
104
Korea
120, 204–205
Korean language
110–111, 112, 114
Kornicki, Peter
111
Kraus, Richard Curt
87
Kristeva, Julia
85
Kugel, James
26–27
kugyŏl (Korean Literary Sinitic)
110–111
kundoku (Japanese Literary Sinitic)
110–111, 114
Kunst, Arthur
2–3
Ku Tim-hung
193
Lach, Donald F.
20
Lambert Strether (character)
159, 160
language
of the Cultural Revolution
88–89
and poetry
78–79, 80, 82–83, 88
reading in a foreign
126
See also Chinese language; Japanese language; Korean language; literary Sinitic; regional languages of China; Vietnamese language
Lanza, Fabio
72n2, 85
Laokoon
25
Lao She
184
Laozi (Lao Tzu)
19–20, 90, 101, 102, 162, 185, 201
Latin literature
36
See also Carmina
Lazarillo
152
Leal, Alice
203
Lefevere, André
212
Le Guin, Ursula K.
168
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
56, 92
Leisewitz, Johann Anton
69
Lenz, Jakob Michael Reinhold
53–55, 56, 58, 67–68, 69
Lessing, Gotthold
25–26, 67, 69
Lettre sur la philosophie chinoise
56
Lewis, R.W.B.
153
Liang Qichao
103, 181
Liao Chao-yang
197
Li Bai
38n4, 44n6, 184
Lien Chi Altangi (character)
54
Li ji 禮記 (Records of Ritual)
129
Li Liangmin
213–217, 220, 224
Lin Biao
88
Lin Daiyu (character)
137–138, 138n4, 166, 167
Lindberg-Wada, Gunilla
184
Lin Shu
20, 146–147
Lin Yutang
186
Li Qingzhao
184
Li Sao 離騷 (“Encountering Sorrow”)
38
Li Sher-shiueh
20
Li Shizheng
78
See also Duo Duo
Li Si
109, 110, 119
literariness
196, 197, 198, 199, 223
literary canon see canonization
Literary Mind or the Carving of Dragons, The
29–30
literary Sinitic
102, 105, 107, 110–111, 112, 119, 120
Literary Studies Association (wenxue yanjiuhui 文学研究会)
180
literature, Chinese and European definitions
128–130
Li Tiangang
20
Liu, James
39
Liu Hongtao
182
Liu Li
176
Liu Shipei
103
Liu Xiang
100
Liu Xie
22, 30
Liu Xinwu
222
Liu Zhen
113
Li Yanshou
105
Logik der Dichtung, Die
34
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
20
Lovekin, David
79n6
Lu Fayan
113
Luhmann, Niklas
177
Lu Ji
104, 118
Lukács, Georg
236–237
Lu-Kiao-Li, Two Fair Cousins (Yu Jiao Li)
4, 144
Lu Mingjun
176–177
Luo Guanzhong
136
Lü Shi Chunqiu 呂氏春秋
100–101, 102
Lu Xinghua
72n1
Lu Xun
181, 184, 226
Luxuriant Dew of the Annals 春秋繁露
106
lyrical poetry
(auto)biographical
34, 35, 36, 38, 38n4, 40, 48
East-West comparative study
33–50
genre characteristics
34–36
origin of
23–25
Lyrics of Chu see Songs/Lyrics of Chu (Chu ci 楚辭)
Macartney mission
134, 145
Magic Mountain, The
152–153
Major, John S.
106
Malebranche, Nicolas
91–92
Mandarin see Chinese language
Mang Ke
78
manipulative translations see rewritings
Mann, Thomas
152
Maoism
72n2, 73, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 185
Mao Zedong
and Badiou
72, 73, 74, 84, 86, 87–88, 89
politicization of literature
221
on world politics
138
Maresyev (character)
220
Marlowe, Christopher
60, 61
Martini, Martino
62
Marx, Karl
83, 134, 147–148, 176, 182, 183
Marxism
82, 82n9, 83, 85, 142, 182–183, 214, 220
Massinger, Philip
61
Mather, Richard B.
106
Matrosov (character)
220
Maugham, W. Somerset
153
Mayakovsky, Vladimir
27, 83
Mei, Tsu-lin
28
Meltzl, Hugo
5
Melville, Herman
160–161
Mencius
91n16, 184
Menoza
55, 59
See also neue Menoza, Der
Menoza (character)
55, 56
metafiction
127, 237, 242
metaphor
19, 26, 44, 166, 238
meter
26, 36, 39, 40
metonymy
19, 26
Mi, Huangfu
118n8
Middlemarch
153
Middleton, Thomas
54
Mighty Opposites
201
Milly Theale (character)
159
Miłosz, Czesław
90
Milton, John
202
Mimesis
192
mimesis (imitation)
23–25, 34, 35, 36
Miner, Earl
21, 35
Minford, John
138n4
minzu
226–230, 231–233, 235–236, 239, 240, 241–242
Mirror and the Lamp, The
25
missionaries, Christian
5, 9, 20, 54, 55, 56, 201
Miß Sara Sampson
67
Miyake, Marc Hideo
110
Moby-Dick
160
modernism
156
modernity
Enlightenment
54
global
133, 135, 135n2
lyrical
35, 36
Mogul Tale, or the Landing of a Balloon, The
64
Moluo shi li shuo 摩罗诗力说 (“On the Power of Mara Poetry”)
181
monarchical plays
59–61, 62, 64
Montanelli (character)
214, 216–217, 218–220
Moretti, Franco
136, 155, 176, 183
Morgenstern, Karl
152, 155, 156
mortality
39, 44n6, 47
motifs see carpe diem; denitiation; freedom; initiation narratives; innocence vs. experience; mortality; nature; pleasure; retreat from public life to nature; wine and symposium
Moulton, Richard G.
180, 180n3
Mo Yan
184
Mozi
112
Mudan ting (The Peony Pavilion)
143
Mughal Empire
62, 64
Musset, Alfred de
22
Nanjing
113, 117
Nathan the Wise
67, 68
national identity
100, 119, 120, 181, 198, 205, 240
nationalism
comparative literature
2, 4, 6, 192
and Confucianism
100
Cultural Revolution
86n10
and minzu
229, 230, 231–232
and Sinocentrism
205
national literatures
Chinese literature as
184, 227
and comparative literature
18
Goethe
4, 144, 198, 229
proto-national literature
103
and world literature
125–126, 148, 177, 178, 179, 198
nation-states
102, 103, 119, 127, 229, 232
Natty Bumppo (character)
158
nature
39, 41–42, 44n6, 46, 48–49, 157, 159, 160
See also retreat from public life to nature
Neruda, Pablo
83
neue Menoza, Der
53–57, 58, 59–60, 62, 67–68
New Literature (新文学)
181, 181n5
New Tellings of World Stories (世説新語)
105–106, 107, 118n8
Nick Adams (character)
158
Nietzsche, Friedrich
22, 79n6
Ninety-Three (Quatrevingt-treize)
146–147
Nirenberg, David
81
Nirenberg, Ricardo L.
81
Nisbett, Richard
201
Nishi Amane
90n15
“No Home in Words” (词内无家)
78
novels
East-West comparative studies
135–136, 197–198
emergence of (early) modern
63, 135, 136–137
genres
58, 127, 136, 144, 192
See also Bildungsroman; Dream of the Red Chamber (Honglou meng 紅樓夢); Gadfly, The
“Nü Wa mending the sky”
166
Nyarong (Zhandui): A 200-Year Kangpa Legend
229
Nylan, Michael
43
Odes (Chinese)
116
See also Classic of Poetry (Shijing 詩經)
Odes (Horace)
36, 37, 39, 40–42, 43, 44–47, 48, 49
Odyssey
152
Of Human Bondage
153
Old Testament
26–27, 28
“Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, The”
168–169
On Poetry (Shi lun)
23
“On the Power of Mara Poetry” (Moluo shi li shuo 摩罗诗力说)
181
Opium Wars
141, 142, 148
Oppen, George
82n9, 83
Oratio de Sinarum philosophia practica
56
Orientalism
European theater
54, 56, 58–66, 68, 69
self-Orientalism
232, 241, 242
Orphan of China (Orphan of Zhao)
66, 147
Ostrovsky, Nikolai
213, 217
Ottoman Empire
59, 61–62, 63–64, 66
Otway, Thomas
61
overseas Chinese literature
185–186, 186n9
Owen, Stephen
38
Padlock, The
63
pan-Siniticism
103, 105, 107, 119
Pan Zhengwen
180
parallelism and rhyme
26–31
paratexts
72, 72n1, 108, 109, 109n3, 110, 111, 115
“Parting Company with Shan Juyuan”
163
patriotism
86n10, 217, 220, 221, 240
Pavel Korchagin (character)
213, 220, 222
Payne, Henry Neville
61–62
“Peach Blossom Spring”
164–165, 166
Pelevin, Victor
227
Peony Pavilion, The (Mudan ting)
143
Percy, Thomas
144
Père Goriot
153, 155–156
peripheries see center and periphery
Phèdre
65
philosophy
Chinese words for
90, 90n15
East-West contact
71–72, 72–73n2, 73n3, 91–92, 185
East-West separation
73, 79, 200–202
and poetry
73, 74–77, 79–80, 81, 90–91
Plaks, Andrew
28
Plato
22, 72, 74, 91
pleasure
22, 23, 45, 47, 57, 136, 165
Plum in the Golden Vase, The (Jin Ping Mei)
136, 137
Poe, Edgar Allan
22, 153
Poetics
23
poetry
Badiou on Chinese
74, 77–82, 89–90, 91, 92
and communism
82–84
European
73–74, 76, 77
functions of
22
and language
78–79, 80, 82–83, 88
origin of
23–25
and philosophy
73, 74–77, 79–80, 81, 90–91
See also epic poetry; lyrical poetry
poiesis
34, 35, 89
political plays
61–64
politicization of literature
221–223
Pontoppidan, Erik
55
Popular Film (Dazhong Dianying)
221
Portrait of a Lady, The
159, 160
Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique
73, 84, 86
postcolonialism
183, 193, 194, 229
postmodern theories
193, 194
Prince Tandi (character)
54, 55–56, 57, 58–59, 68
Prokofiev, Sergei
210
propaganda
116, 213–214, 221
Puchner, Martin
179, 184
Pullman, Philip
227
Pym, Anthony
203
Qianlong Emperor
134, 142, 145–146
Qian Zhongshu 錢鐘書
3, 18–20, 22, 25–26, 200
Qieyun
112–113, 115
Quatrevingt-treize (Ninety-Three)
146–147
Queen, Sarah A.
106
Qu Yuan
38, 186
Racine, Jean
64, 65
Racine et Shakespeare
155n2
racism
214–215
Rahv, Philip
159, 160
Rancière, Jacques
72n2
Rasselas
154
reading literarily/aesthetically
196, 198, 199
realism
155n2, 156, 220
Record of the Righteous Deaths of Two Heroes, A (Shuangxiong yisi lu)
147
Records of Ritual (Li ji 禮記)
129
regional canon
211, 213, 221
regional identity
101, 104, 115, 119
regional languages of China
109–110, 110n4, 111–115, 117, 118, 119
regional literature
103–105
Reichwein, Adolf
20
religion
atheism
91–92, 214
in European theater
55, 58, 59, 61, 65, 66, 67
and feelings
58, 62
in The Gadfly
214, 217, 218–220, 222
Remak, Henry
1
Renaissance
54, 59, 60, 64
Renegado, The
61
Renmin de Hao Erzi (Good Sons of the People)
223
repetition see parallelism and rhyme
retreat from public life to nature
36–37, 39, 40–43, 46–50, 80, 81, 157, 162–164
“Returning Home” (歸去來兮辭)
47
Revenge, The
61
revolutionary heroism
217–218, 220–221, 222, 223
rewritings
definition
212
The Gadfly
213–220, 221, 222
The Orphan of Zhao
66
The Song of King Gesar
227, 228, 230–232, 233–239, 242
Reznikoff, Charles
82n9
Rhapsodies on the Three Capitals (三都賦)
115–118
rhyme
and parallelism
26–31
unification
113, 114
Richard ii
60
Richardson, Samuel
67, 197
Ricoeur, Paul
203–204
Riffaterre, Michael
27
Rimbaud, Arthur
74
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
136
Romanticism
155, 155n2, 157
Romeo and Juliet
200n2
Rosenblatt, Louise
199
Rouge et le Noir, Le
155n2
Rukeyser, Muriel
82n9
Russia
63–64, 69, 141, 182, 195, 222
See also Soviet Union
Russian language translations
143, 210, 211, 213, 217–220, 222
Russo, Alessandro
85
Said, Edward W.
183, 240
Salinger, J.D.
158
Sandhed til Gudfryktighed (Truth Unto Godliness)
55
Sartor Resartus
153
Sartre, Jean-Paul
82, 88, 89
Saussy, Haun
85, 114, 117, 149n7, 176, 179, 204–205
Schiller, Friedrich
181
Schlözer, August Ludwig
177
script
regional variation
110n4, 111–112, 114–115, 117
Sinographs
109n3, 110, 111, 114, 115, 204–205
unification
107–108, 109–110, 109n3, 112, 113
secularization
220, 230, 231, 232, 233–235
self-Orientalism
232, 241, 242
Selimus, Emperor of the Turks
61
Settle, Elkanah
62
Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove
153, 163
Shakespeare, William
60, 62, 63, 67, 181, 200n2
Shangshu 尚書 (Book of Documents)
35
Shan Tao (Juyuan)
163
Shan Te-hsing
193
Shanxi merchants (Jin shang)
141
Shelley, P.B.
22
shi 詩
38, 90
Shijing 詩經 (Classic of Poetry)
35
shi ren 詩人
34
Shi Tiesheng
211
shiwa (shihua 詩話)
111
Shi Ye
54
Shu
117, 118
Shuangxiong yisi lu (A Record of the Righteous Deaths of Two Heroes)
147
Shuowen Jiezi
109, 115
Shuoyuan 說苑
100, 114, 115
Siege of Constantinople, The
61
silence
75, 76, 78, 80, 81, 89
Silk Road
9, 134, 141, 142
Sima Qian
22, 38
Sima Xiangru
38
Sinitic vs. non-Sinitic
102, 115, 116, 117–118, 120
See also Han vs. non-Han
Sinocentrism
4, 133, 134, 143, 146, 148, 205
Sinographs
109n3, 110, 111, 114, 115, 204–205
Sinosphere
204–205, 206
Skybright (Qingwen, character)
140, 141
social class
class struggle and socialism
147, 183, 214, 215, 221, 229
educated class, Chinese
163, 241
European literature
55, 67, 68, 214, 215, 220
upper class, Chinese
83, 134, 137, 138, 139–140
socialism
Italian Risorgimento
214
New Left
86
and popularity of The Gadfly
210, 211, 223
See also communism; Maoism; Marxism; revolutionary heroism
Soldier’s Fortune, The
61
Song Binghui
186n9
Song of King Gesar, The
227, 228, 230–232, 233–240, 242
Songs/Lyrics of Chu (Chu ci 楚辭)
38, 102, 112, 116
Song Yongyi
88n11
South America, narratives set in
65, 214, 215, 221
sovereignty
60, 64
Soviet Union
72, 182, 210–211, 214, 217–220, 221–222
See also Russia
Spain
135, 137
Spence, Jonathan
20
Spinoza, Baruch
91–92
Spitzer, Leo
192
standardization see unification
Steiner, George
76, 76n5, 202
Steinitz, Wolfgang
27, 30
Stendhal
155n2
Stević, Aleksandar
156
Stoicism
44, 46, 47, 59
Stolberg, Count
198, 228
Stolze, Radegundis
204
Stories of Zoya and Shura
220
Story of the Stone, The see Dream of the Red Chamber (Honglou meng 紅樓夢)
Sturm und Drang
54, 55, 57, 58, 67, 69
Sultan, The
63, 64, 65
Su Shi
37
symposium see wine and symposium
Szymborska, Wisława
83
Taiwan
literary studies in
3, 192–194, 195–197, 199, 205–206
literature
194, 199–200, 202, 205–206
Tamburlaine
60
Tao and the Logos, The
201
Tao Yuanming
career
164–165
in Chinese literary tradition
37n3, 38n5, 80, 81, 153, 166
compared with Horace
34, 36–37, 38–41, 42–44, 46, 47–50
Tartar Conquest of China, The
62
theater
civic drama
54, 63, 65, 67–68
monarchical plays
59–61, 62, 64
Orientalism
54, 56, 58–66, 68, 69
political plays
61–64
Sturm und Drang
54, 55, 57, 58, 67, 69
tragedies
35, 58, 65, 66, 67, 68
translations and adaptions
147, 211
Turkic plays
61–62
themes see carpe diem; denitiation; freedom; initiation narratives; innocence vs. experience; mortality; nature; pleasure; retreat from public life to nature; wine and symposium
Theocritus
41
Théorie Du Sujet
84
Thoreau, Henry David
157
Thornber, Karen L.
227, 238
Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
78, 83
Tibet
227, 228, 229, 232, 238, 240–241
Timur (character)
60, 62
Tokarczuk, Olga
227
Tolstoy, Leo
181
Torquato Tasso
4
“To Vice Magistrate Zhang” (酬張少府)
80
trade, international see foreign objects; world economy
tragedies
35, 58, 65, 66, 67, 68
Transcendentalism, American
157
translations
into Chinese
20, 146–147, 175–176, 180–181, 182, 192
between Chinese regional dialects
109
Chinese to Western languages
4, 6, 80–81, 144, 147, 149, 181, 185
and comparative literature
196, 197, 198
Gadfly into Chinese
211, 213–217, 220, 223
Gadfly into Soviet languages
210, 211, 217–220, 222
importance for world literature
126, 197–198, 199, 202–203, 204
inner workings of
76, 126, 202–204
kugyŏl (Korean Literary Sinitic)
110–111
kundoku (Japanese Literary Sinitic)
110–111, 114
lack of
134, 143, 184
manipulative (rewriting)
66, 212, 213–220, 221, 222
minzu literature
227, 228
theater and film adaptions
147, 211, 221
translation studies
196
transnational cultural identity
178, 186
“Travelling to Chang gan” (Changgan xing 長干行)
38n4
Treaty of Nanking
142, 148
Tristram Shandy
127
Triumphs of Honour and Industry, The
54
Truth Unto Godliness (Sandhed til Gudfryktighed)
55
Tseng Jui-hua
195
Tu, Hang
86, 86n10
Turkic plays
61–62
Tutor, The
68, 69
Twain, Mark
157–158, 159, 160
Typee
160
Unexpected Affinities: Reading Across Cultures
177
unification
imperial
109, 115, 117, 119
literary Sinitic
102, 105, 107, 110–111, 112, 119, 120
script
107–108, 109–110, 109n3, 112, 113
United Kingdom see Great Britain
United States
3, 135, 137, 186, 192, 195, 211
See also American literature
“Universal Literature” (世间文学)
180, 180n3
universals
17, 21, 22, 54, 155, 177–178, 180, 198
US see United States
ussr see Soviet Union
utopianism
56, 83, 165, 166–167, 168, 169
Vallejo, Cesar
83
Van Norden, Bryan
73
vernaculars
110, 111, 112, 125, 127, 128, 158, 200
See also regional languages of China
Vickers, Brian
37
Vietnam
120, 204–205
Vietnamese language
110, 114
Virgil
125
Viscount Cameleon (character)
55, 56–57
Voltaire
64, 65–66, 147, 154
Voynich, Ethel
210, 211, 217
Wagner, Heinrich Leopold
69
Wallerstein, Immanuel
135
Wan, Margaret
104
Wang, David Der-wei
35
Wang Chih-ming
194, 196
Wang Guowei
103, 180, 181
Wang Li
28, 30
Wang Ning
182
Wang Su
100
Wang Wei
80–81, 82, 83, 90, 184
Watson, Burton
36
Watson, E.L. Grant
161
Waverly Novels
125
Wei Junyi
220
Weisstein, Ulrich
2
Wellek, René
192
Weltliteratur see world literature
wen 文
42, 90, 128–129
wenxue 文學
128, 129, 181
wenxue dagang 文学大纲 (Guidelines of Literature)
180
wenxue yanjiuhui 文学研究会 (Literary Studies Association)
180
wenzhang 文章
128, 129, 130
West-centrism see Eurocentrism
West-East comparative studies see East-West comparative studies
Western Chamber, The (Xixiang ji)
143, 167
Western comparative literature
American school
1, 2, 195
applied to Chinese literature
193, 194, 196, 197
See also Eurocentrism
Westernization of Chinese scholarship
202
Whitman, Walt
27
Wieland, Christoph Martin
56, 152, 177
Wilde, Oscar
202
Wilhelmine (character)
55, 57
Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre
152, 153, 156
Wilkinson, James
144
Williams, Raymond
183
wine and symposium
39–40, 41, 42, 43–45, 44n6
Wings of the Dove, The
159
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
75, 76, 76n4
Wolff, Christian
56
Wordsworth, William
22
world economy
135, 137
worldliness
181–182, 181n4, 185–186
world literature
anthologies
179, 184–185, 184n6
beginnings of
4–6, 134, 143–144, 147–148, 176–177, 180–182, 197–198
canonization
125–126, 183–184, 198, 211, 223–224, 238
Chinese literature, inclusion of
126–127, 182, 183–186, 200, 202
Chinese perspectives on
175–178, 180–183, 185–187
definitions
4–5, 130, 131, 147, 178–179, 184n6, 239
and minzu literature
226–230
modeling from examples
123–125
and national literatures
125–126, 148, 177, 178, 179, 198
and translations
126, 197–198, 199, 202–203, 204
World Republic of Letters, The
5, 108
world-systems theory
135, 136, 137
Wu Cheng’en
184
Wu Mi 吳宓
3
xiaoshuo 小說
127
Xiao Tong (Zhaoming)
130, 164
Xixiang ji (The Western Chamber)
143, 167
Xun Ciming
107
Xu Shen
109, 110
Yang, Chi-Ming
54
Yang Xi
112
Yang Xiong
111, 112, 114
Yan Yuan-shu
192, 196
Yegorova, E.
217, 220
yi 夷
102, 105, 107, 115
Yip, Wai-lim
81
Yuan Lang
106, 107
Yu-kiao-li ou Les deux cousines (Yu Jiao Li)
4, 144
Zaïre
65
Zha Mingjian
177
Zhang Ailing
184
Zhang Guogang
20
Zhang Heng
116
Zhang Ke
181
Zhang Longxi
East-West comparative research
201, 202
poetry
38, 44n6
politicization of literature
222
Sinocentrism
143, 205
world literature
108, 148, 176, 177–178, 183, 184, 223
Zhang Xiping
20
Zhao Gao
109
Zhaoming (Xiao Tong)
130, 164
Zhen’gao 真誥
112
Zheng Zhenduo
180, 180n3
zhi 質
128–129
Zhirmunsky, V.M.
27–28, 30–31
Zhong Rong
22
Zhongwai Wenxue (Chung Wai Literary Monthly)
192, 193, 193n1, 194
Zhou Enlai
88
Zhuangzi
in Chinese literary tradition
91n17, 143, 153, 184
Daoism
42, 43, 162, 167
parables
49, 163
poetry
80, 81
Zhu Guangqian 朱光潛
3, 23, 24–25, 26
Zhu Xi
24
zhuxia 諸夏
103, 105–107, 111, 117
Zixi, Duke of E
115
Zoya (character)
220
Zukofsky, Louis
82n9
Zulime
65
Zuo Si
115–118
Zwillinge, Die
69