Remapping China at the East-West Intersection

Jun Zeng, Professor, College of Liberal Arts, Shanghai University, ChinaYou Wu, Professor, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, East China Normal University, ChinaKeyan G. Tomaselli, Distinguished Professor, Humanities Dean's Office, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

• Introduction 1. Cultural Studies in Interhemispherical Perspective. China, Africa, Asia and Australasia 2. Existing Approaches of Cultural Studies and Global Dialogism: A Study Beginning with the Debate around ‘Cultural Imperialism 3. Cultural Studies as ‘Export’ Discipline and Its Challenges 4. Thinking on the Research Methods of Dialogism in Chinese and Western Literary Theories 5. Globalization, Divergence and Cultural Fecundity: Seeking Harmony in Diversity through François Jullien’s Transcultural Reflection on China 6. A Critical Response to Western Critics’ Controversial Viewpoints on Chinese Traditional Narrative and Fiction Criticism 7. Western Theory and Historical Studies of Chinese Literary Criticism 8. New Progression in China’s Narratology Studies: Extensive Reform of Western Narratology and Embryonic Construction of Chinese School of Narratology 9. Remapping Taipei for Jameson? Rediscovering the Indigenization, Modernity, and Postmodernity of Taipei 10. The Renewal of Western Philosophy: On Heidegger’s Expropriation of Lao Tzu’s Thought through Xiao Shiyi 11. Yixiang (意象) in Contemporary Chinese Ink Installation Art 12. Reception and Dissemination of Qiyun Shengdong in the Western Art Criticism 13. Between Calligraphic Untranslatability and Symbolic Translatability: Xu Bing’s Pictographic Art 14. The Classical Chinese Gardens as a Medium: Rethinking the Visual Transformation in Chinese Culture in the Twentieth Century 15. Martial Dance: Stage Wushu as a Performing Art 16. Digital Virtuality and Autopoiesis: The Transformation from World Elements of Literature and Arts to Metaverse 17. The Insight and Limitation of “Post-Theory”: The Poetics Problem of Chinese Cinema Carried by David Bordwell 18. Tradition, Transmediality, and Modernity: Representation of the Double in Chinese Modern Visual Culture 19. Literary Theory and Cultural Practice of “Metaverse” in China 20. Screening China in Carnival: A Powerful China Framed in Participatory Documentary