Fusion of Critical Horizons in Chinese and Western Language, Poetics, Aesthetics

Ming Dong Gu is Distinguished Professor of Foreign Studies at Shenzhen University, China, and Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Dallas, USA. His recent books include Why Traditional Chinese Philosophy Still Matters (2018) and Sinologism: An Alternative to Orientalism and Postcolonialism (2013).

• Ch. 1: Aesthetic Divide and Vision of Global Aesthetics.- Part I: Language and Writing.- Ch. 2: Writing System and Linguistic Controversy.- Ch. 3: Re-conceptualizing the Linguistic Divide.- Part II: Metaphor and Poetics.- Ch. 4: Chinese and Western Conceptions of Metaphor.- Ch. 5: Metaphor as Signs: Bi-Xing and Metaphor/Metonymy.- Part III: Mimesis and Representation.- Ch. 6: Is Mimetic Theory Universal?.- Ch. 7: Western Mimesis and Chinese Mimetic Theory.- Part IV: Metaphysics and Aesthetics.- Ch. 8: Divine Thinking and Artistic Creation.- Ch. 9: Lyricism and Mimeticism in Aesthetic Thought.- Ch. 10: Toward World Criticism and Global Aesthetics.