"China in a Polycentric World provides an important and much-needed testimony to the rewards and difficulties inherent in the challenge of practicing a comparative approach that reaches beyond the sphere of Western literatures. At its best, the book spurs scholars to question long-held assumptions about what literature is, how it can be talked about, and who is doing the talking."--China Review International
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: engaging Chinese comparative literature and cultural studies Yingjin Zhang; Part I. Discipline, Discourse, Canon: 1. The challenge of East-West comparative literature Zhang Longxi; 2. The utopias of discourse: on the impossibility of Chinese comparative literature David Palumbo-Liu; 3. Canon formation in traditional Chinese poetry: Chinese canons, sacred and profane Mark E. Francis; Part II. Gender, Sexuality, Body: 4. A feminist re-vision of Xu Wei's Ci Mulan and Nu zhuangyuan Ann-Marie Hsiung; 5. Gender, subjectivity, sexuality: defining a subversive discourse in Wang Anyi's four tales of sexual transgression Helen H. Chen; 6. Consuming Asian women: the fluid body of Josie Packard in Twin Peaks Greta Ai-Yu Niu; Part III. Science, Modernity, Aesthetics: 7. Travel and translation: an aspect of china's cultural modernity, 1862-1926 John Yu Zou; 8. Baoyu in Wonderland: technological Utopia in the early modern Chinese science fiction novel Feng-Ying Ming; 9. The texture of the metropolis: modernist inscriptions of Shanghai in the 1930s Yingjin Zhang; 10. The cult of poetry in contemporary China Michelle Yeh; 11. Tianya, the ends of the world or the edge of heaven: comparative literature at the fin de siecle Eugene Chen Eoyang.
