Cross-cultural Studies: China and the World

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' ForewordContributorsIntroductionQian Zhongshu, Zhang Longxi and Modern Chinese ScholarshipQian SuoqiaoPrologueLooking Backwards at Worlds ApartZhang LongxiPart I. Sinological Studies: China and Her “Others” in HistoryChapter 1A Han Official Serves the Jurchen: Zhao Bingwen’s Poetic Reflections on Rival States and CulturesRonald Egan Chapter 2Dwelling in the Texts: Toward an Ethnopoetics of Zhu Xi and DaoxueLionel M Jensen Chapter 3Some Thoughts on Writing the History of Chinese ThoughtTorbjörn Lodén Chapter 4China and Japan: Dichotomies and Diglossia in Japanese Literary HistoryGunilla Lindberg-WadaPart II. Comparative Cultural Studies: East and WestChapter 5Antiquarianism in China and Europe: Reflections on MomiglianoLothar von FalkenhausenChapter 6Cosmology, Divination and Semiotics: Chinese and GreekLisa RaphalsChapter 7Matteo Ricci the DaoistHaun SaussyChapter 8“That roar which lies on the other side of silence”: Comparing Hong Lou Meng, Middlemarch, and Other Masterpieces of Western NarrativeDonald StonePart III. Cultural Theory: China and the WorldChapter 9Zhang Longxi’s Contribution to World Literature in the Globalizing World of Multiculturalism: A TributeHwa Yol JungChapter 10To Honor the Language of Truth: Reflections on Nietzsche, Bialik, Chen Yinke and Zhang LongxiVera SchwarczChapter 11Mao’s China Abroad, and Its Homecoming: A Comedy of Cross-Culturing in Two ActsGuo JianChapter 12Memory, Rhizome and Postmodern Sensitivity: Wong Kar-wai and Brazilian FilmsDenize AraujoEpilogueThe Saintly and the SubornedTimothy MoChinese Character ListBibliography