Aesthetics Across Borders

Guohua Zhu is Changjiang Scholars Program Distinguished Professor, dean of School of International Chinese Studies, East China Normal University, editor-in-chief of TSLA (Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art), and chair of Chinese Association of Literary Theory, specializing in Eastern and Western literary theories. His books include The Cultural Logic of Power: Bourdieu’s Sociological Poetics (2016 expanded edition).Riccardo Moratto is Distinguished Professor (特聘教授) at the School of Foreign Studies (SFS), Tongji University, Deputy Director of the Research Center for Chinese Discourse and Global Communication, AIIC member, expert member of the Translators Association of China (TAC), Standing Council Member of World Interpreter and Translator Training Association (WITTA), and member of numerous other associations. Professor Moratto is general editor of Routledge Studies in East Asian Interpreting and Routledge Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Approaches to Chinese Literature. Professor Moratto is a Chartered Linguist and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Linguists (FCIL), a hyperpolyglot, an international conference interpreter and renowned literary translator. Professor Moratto has published extensively in the fields of translation and interpreting studies and Chinese literature.Di-kai Chao is a postdoctoral researcher at East China Normal University, China. His research focuses on ghost narratives in contemporary Sinophone fiction and the discourse on the “lyrical tradition” in Chinese literature.

• Contents Biographies of Contributors Introduction: Aesthetics Across Borders: Comparing Chinese and Western Literary Theories 1. Facing the World: The Modern Vision of Chinese Literature in the 20th Century Xiaoming Chen, Yingchun Fan (translator) and Hao Wang (translator) 2. The “Poststructuralist” Poetics of The Great Preface to the Book of Songs: With a Discussion on the Modernization of Traditional Chinese Literary Theory Mingdong Gu and Riccardo Moratto (translator) 3. Self-Absorption and Performance in Tanci Fiction: 18th-century Chinese Conceptions of Identity in Comparative Perspective Wen Jin 4. Wugan and Affectus: Two Inventions of Emotion and Their Interpretations in China and the West Xuan Liu 5. Contemporary Chinese Literary Theories in the Context of East-West Literary Theory Interaction Fa Zhang and Riccardo Moratto (translator) 6. The Other in the Self’s Horizon and the Self in the Mirror of the Other: The Issue of “Canonical Reconstruction” in the English Translations of Wen Xin Diao Long in the United States Pengfei Gu 7. Footnote, Reference and Theory: On “China” in Western Theories Yuyu Wu 8. Theory as Wen/Xue: Lyrical Tradition and Chinese Modernity Yonghua Tang and Pengfei Zou (translator) 9. Aesthetic Potential in the Age of Intelligence Feng Wang Index