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Simon C. EstokPages 43-55 ABSTRACT The topics of Anthropocene literature have a perceived global relevance that is greater than that of literature in any other period in history, and Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People, Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance, and Paulo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl show this clearly. These books hit common global registers, at once […]

Guo WeiPages 57-72 ABSTRACT In “Literary Variation of Indian Buddhist Stories in Chinese 志怪 (Zhiguai) Novels,” Wei Guo discusses Buddhist Sutra scriptures which have been a reservoir of inspiration for Zhiguai novels since their first introduction in Chinese literature. Buddhist texts were less relevant for the “documentary” tradition of Chinese literature owing to their rough

Maximiliano E. KorstanjePages 73-85 ABSTRACT Classic Edward Said´s term Orientalism was widely applied to those narratives and story-telling oriented to deride, subordinate and domesticate the “Non-Western Other”. Over centuries, Europe has developed an imperial matrix that is finely enrooted in an uncanny long-dormant paternalism where “the Other” was treated as a child to educate. The

Shuo QiuPages 87-103 ABSTRACT Through an analysis of the work of the Yi (彝) poets, Aku Wuwu, Jidi Majia, and Jimu Langge, this paper discusses the significance of Yi literature in translation, circulation, and production, with an additional focus on the development of minority literature in the context of world literature. A variety of factors

Shunqing Cao, Shuaidong ZhangPages 105-114 ABSTRACT If we inspect closely the works that ascend to world literature from the peripheral, David Damrosch’s well-recognized argument that “world literature is writing that gains in translation” may need some revision, because apparently translation is not the sole factor that decides the formation of world literature. Translated works do

Qing YangPages 115-129 ABSTRACT In “Canonization and Variations of Shakespeare’s Work in China,” Qing Yang discusses the role of cross-linguistic and inter-cultural variations with regard to William Shakespeare’s intercultural travel and canonization in China. In the context of globalization, Shakespeare’s texts outside Western cultures undergo cross-national, cross-linguistic and inter-cultural variations in the process of translation.

Peina Zhuang, Jie ZhangPages 131-145 ABSTRACT In “On Variations of the Classical Chinese Literary Genre terminchinesescript (Fu) in Literary History,” the authors analyze the representation of the classical Chinese literary genre Fu, or namely, rhapsode, in Chinese literary histories compiled in English. A unique classical literary genre, Fu commonly appears in classical Chinese literature as

Jiang SunPages 1-9 ABSTRACT Conceptual history has recently become a popular subject within Chinese academia, and its methods are being applied to various fields in the humanities and social sciences. I was invited to give a keynote speech in the academic seminar “History Education in Schools,” hosted by Yangzhou University, and asked to write a

Gongzhong LiPages 11-28 ABSTRACT As a traditional term used in ancient Chinese, shiehwui社會 mainly implied the gatherings and meetings related to folk festivals for the worship of and making offerings to shie社, the gods of soil. The manifestation of shiehwui frequently was the target of condescension or outright condemnation from the government or Confucian elites.

Dongmu LiPages 29-45 ABSTRACT The term guominxing (国民性, national character) is undoubtedly an important term in both the history of modern thought and the history of modern vocabulary. However, it seems that the term has never been specifically explored as an object of study in the field of lexical history whereas in the field of