Aesthetics Across Borders (eBook)

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