ISBN:
9789622097995
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (316 p)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Critical Zone 2 : A Forum of Chinese and Western Knowledge
DDC:
001.30951
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Despite globalizing forces, whether economic, political, or cultural, there remain conspicuous differences that divide scholarly communities. How should we understand and respond to those discursive gaps among different traditions and systems of knowledge production? Critical Zone is a book series in cultural and literary studies that is concerned with current critical debates and intellectual preoccupations in the humanities. The series aims to improve understanding across cultures, traditions, discourses, and disciplines, and to produce international critical knowledge. Critical Zone is an e
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Introduction; Part I: Empire; Who Killed Alden Pyle? The Oversight of Oversight in Graham Greene's 'The Quiet American'; Citing and Situating America's Democratic Jargon: China Passes Through Detroit in 1942; Writing and Speech in Western Views of the Chinese Language; Imperial Globalization and Colonial Transactions: ""African Lugard"" and the University of Hong Kong; Empires, Gardens, Collections: How Each Explains the Others; The Idea of China in New Text Confucianism, 1780-1911; Part II: Reviews and Translations; Debate on Lu Xun
Description / Table of Contents:
Reloading the Canon: The Fin-de-Siecle Controversies over Lu XunLu Xun as I See Him; Lu Xun's Achievements and ""Weaknesses""; Lu Xun and Orientalism; Thoughts Provoked by the 'Shouhuo' Essays: My View on the Hot Spots in Current Lu Xun Studies; Some Unavoidable Questions in Lu Xun Studies; How Was Lu Xun Appropriated?; My View on the Appropriation of Lu Xun; Peking University Reform; The Balance of Power in a Leading Comprehensive Research University in China; The Idea of the Chinese University and Peking University Reform; Gan Yang and Cultural Nationalism
Description / Table of Contents:
University Reform and Academic Tradition: The Question of Academic Autonomy and Modern Chinese UniversitiesCultural Nationalism, ""a Sense of Frustration"" and the Spiritual Mission of Chinese Intellectuals: A Rebuttal of Xue Yong's ""Gan Yang and Cultural Nationalism""; The World-Class University and Localization; Contributors
Note:
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