Qian Suoqiao, Ph.D. (1996), University of California, Berkeley, is Professor (Chair) of Chinese Studies at Newcastle University, UK. He has published monographs, translations and many articles on Chinese and cross-cultural studies, including Liberal Cosmopolitan: Lin Yutang and Middling Chinese Modernity (Brill, 2011).
Series Editors' Foreword
Contributors
Introduction Qian Zhongshu, Zhang Longxi and Modern Chinese Scholarship Qian Suoqiao
Prologue Looking Backwards at Worlds Apart Zhang Longxi
Part I. Sinological Studies: China and Her âOthersâ in History
Chapter 1 A Han Official Serves the Jurchen: Zhao Bingwenâs Poetic Reflections on Rival States and Cultures Ronald Egan
Chapter 2 Dwelling in the Texts: Toward an Ethnopoetics of Zhu Xi and Daoxue Lionel M Jensen
Chapter 4 China and Japan: Dichotomies and Diglossia in Japanese Literary History Gunilla Lindberg-Wada
Part II. Comparative Cultural Studies: East and West
Chapter 5 Antiquarianism in China and Europe: Reflections on Momigliano Lothar von Falkenhausen
Chapter 6 Cosmology, Divination and Semiotics: Chinese and Greek Lisa Raphals
Chapter 7 Matteo Ricci the Daoist Haun Saussy
Chapter 8 âThat roar which lies on the other side of silenceâ: Comparing Hong Lou Meng, Middlemarch, and Other Masterpieces of Western Narrative Donald Stone
Part III. Cultural Theory: China and the World
Chapter 9 Zhang Longxiâs Contribution to World Literature in the Globalizing World of Multiculturalism: A Tribute Hwa Yol Jung
Chapter 10 To Honor the Language of Truth: Reflections on Nietzsche, Bialik, Chen Yinke and Zhang Longxi Vera Schwarcz
Chapter 11 Maoâs China Abroad, and Its Homecoming: A Comedy of Cross-Culturing in Two Acts Guo Jian
Chapter 12 Memory, Rhizome and Postmodern Sensitivity: Wong Kar-wai and Brazilian Films Denize Araujo
Epilogue The Saintly and the Suborned Timothy Mo
Chinese Character List
Bibliography
All interested in Chinese and cross-cultural studies, including traditional sinological studies and studies in cultural theory involving China and the world, across several disciplines: comparative literature, history, philosophy, religious studies, film studies, cultural studies.