Zhang Longxi
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 296360 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Zhang Longxi |
| NOMBRES | Zhang |
| APELLIDO | Longxi |
| FIRMA | LONGXI Z |
| AFILIACIONES | City University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9268-6641 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1985 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
China in the political imaginary of restoration England
Writing a History of the World’s Literatures
In much of its history from the nineteenth century to the last decade of the twentieth, comparative literature remained largely Eurocentric, and surveys or histories of the world’s literatures were mostly written by Western scholars from a West-centred perspective. Literature: A World History ( LAWH ) took the first step in writing a history of literature of the world from a non-Eurocentric point of view by having the voices of the world’s differ…
Facing Challenges and Opportunities
Chinese-Western comparative literature is a difficult area of study that requires a high level of competence in languages, cultures, and histories across the huge differences between China and the West. It also has the remarkable potential to make contributions to comparative literature and comparative poetics. This essay discusses the exemplary works of Zhu Guangqian and Qian Zhongshu as our predecessors and continues to explore the different re…
A History of Chinese Literature
Zhang Longxi, an internationally renowned scholar of Chinese and comparative literature, is your guide to the three-millennia-long history of Chinese literature from the remote antiquity of oracle bones to contemporary works. Professor Zhang charts the development of the major literary forms in Chinese, including poetry, prose, song lyrics, and plays, and introduces the most famous poets and writers and their representative texts. Taking a period…
Thinking Utopia
After the breakdown of socialist and communist systems in the East, it had become fashionable to declare the so-called "end of utopia" ("end of history," "end of narratives"). The authors of this volume do not share this view but think that it is time to rehabilitate utopian thought. The political concept of Utopia that has given its name to these transcendental projections onto the world has been too narrow to describe and analyze the moving for…
Parallelism and Antithesis
Roman Jakobson famously defined poetry as pivoting on the metaphorical axis with parallelism as a major feature, and James Kugel argues that parallelism is the defining feature of biblical poetry. The parallel structure – including its variations of symmetry and antithesis – is crucial for classical Chinese poetry. In drawing on both Chinese and Western critical views on the symmetrical structure of parallelism and antithesis, this paper will exp…
The Hermeneutic Circle, Textual Integrity, and the Validity of Interpretation
In both China and the West, there is an emphasis on the literal sense as the basis of all interpretations. By discussing the hermeneutic circle, the textual integrity, and the connection of the theological tradition from Augustine to Aquinas and Luther with contemporary literary theory, this essay comments on the various concepts and argues for the importance of the plain or literal sense of the text for valid interpretation.
Cosmopolitanism and Global Ethics
Embracing all humanity as one's own is the core of the modern idea of cosmopolitanism, but the present time with rising tribalism, populism, racism, and narrow-minded nationalism is not propitious for cosmopolitanism. At a time like this, the cosmopolitan effort to see cultures and peoples as close to one another rather than absolutely different becomes all the more important. The comparative study of different cultures and literatures may promot…
Comparison and Correspondence
Analogical thinking that relates everything to everything else in a complicated system of correspondences was common in ancient Mesopotamia, ancient Greece, early modern Europe, as well as ancient China. Such premodern theories of knowledge about correspondences between the cosmos and the human world are discredited in modern scientific thinking, but by revisiting some of the old ideas, of which the value has not been sufficiently recognized in m…
Re-conceptualizing China in our Time
China as a concept had not been put under much scrutiny and challenge until the recent postmodern and postcolonial theoretical discourse on nation and nationhood, and the radical scepticism about tradition and homogeneity. Some scholars have questioned whether China could have been a nation state before there was any nation state in Europe, and others have challenged the very notions of China and Chineseness. How do the Chinese themselves respond…
Cross-cultural Translatability
In our quest of a new paradigm for cultural or cross-cultural understanding, we must first take a look at the very concept of a paradigm, as Thomas Kuhn expounded in his celebrated book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions , and the related concepts of incommensurability and untranslatability. Kuhn’s concepts have a significant influence on social sciences and the humanities, and they put an overemphasis on the difference and the impossibilit…
Lessons from Mount Lu
Su Shi, one of China's greatest poets, has a simple but famous poem on viewing Mount Lu, presenting different images viewed from different perspectives. Reading this as an allegory of understanding China, this article examines the paradigmatic change of Sinology or China studies in the United States with regard to Paul Cohen's "China-centered" approach, presents a critique of the dichotomous view of China as the reverse image of the West, and arg…
The Pale Cast of Thought
In his Theses on Feuerbach , Karl Marx famously formulated the principle of a philosophy of revolutionary action that the point is to change the world, not to interpret it. The critique of pure thinking and philosophizing has a long tradition in philosophical thinking itself, and the problem of hasty action without thinking through possible consequences and implications can be equally futile and even dangerous. Thus we face the dilemma of thinkin…
Reflections on Colonialism and Coloniality
Valeurs, défense, crise et avenir des sciences humaines
The humanities, particularly literature and the arts, seem always to have to justify their value and legitimacy vis-a-vis some other, more practical, more useful, or more authoritative aspects of human life and activities. In ancient Greece, Plato dismissed poetry as being untrue and irrational, but beginning with Aristotle, there has been a long tradition of defense of poetry in the West. Traditionally the most effective defense was to emphasize…
The Humanities
The humanities, particularly literature and the arts, seem always to have to justify their value and legitimacy vis-à-vis some other, more practical, more useful, or more authoritative aspects of human life and activities. In ancient Greece, Plato dismissed poetry as being untrue and irrational, but beginning with Aristotle, there has been a long tradition of defense of poetry in the West. Traditionally the most effective defense was to emphasize…
The Complexity of Difference
This contribution is part of a special issue on History and Human Nature, comprising an essay by G.E.R. Lloyd and fifteen invited responses
The True Face of Mount Lu
From a hermeneutic point of view, understanding is always conditioned by one's own horizon and perspective. as the great poet Su Shi remarks, we do not know the "true face of Mount Lu" because what we see constantly changes as we move high or low, far off or up close. But the point of the "hermeneutic circle" is not to legitimize the circularity or subjectivity of one's understanding, but to make us conscious of the challenge. How do we understan…
Humanism yet Once More
Comparative Political Theory and Cross-Cultural Philosophy
Unexpected Affinities
ONE The Fallacy of Cultural Incommensurability TWO 'Faire une perle d'une larme': Reading across Cultures THREE 'Within the infant rind of this weak flower': The Ambivalence of Poison and Medicine FOUR 'A paradise within thee, happier far': The Dialectic of Return and Reversal
Allegoresis
History and Fictionality
In both China and the West, the literary quality of historical narratives has been fully recognized. In recent postmodern theories, however, the recognition of history as narrative is given a radical interpretation that challenges not only the truth-claim of historical narratives, but also the very distinction between fact and fiction, reality and textuality. By drawing on both Chinese and Western sources, this article revisits the debate on hist…
Classics and Interpretation
Debating 'Chinese postmodernism
The Myth of the Other
Western Theory and Chinese Reality
The "Tao" and the "Logos
Out of the Cultural Ghetto
Re-conceptualizing China in our Time
China as a concept had not been put under much scrutiny and challenge until the recent postmodern and postcolonial theoretical discourse on nation and nationhood, and the radical scepticism about tradition and homogeneity. Some scholars have questioned whether China could have been a nation state before there was any nation state in Europe, and others have challenged the very notions of China and Chineseness. How do the Chinese themselves respond…
The Complexity of Difference
This contribution is part of a special issue on History and Human Nature, comprising an essay by G.E.R. Lloyd and fifteen invited responses
Cultural Differences and Cultural Constructs
Zhang Longxi, Cultural Differences and Cultural Constructs: Reflections on Jewish and Chinese Literalism, Poetics Today, Vol. 19, No. 2, Hellenism and Hebraism Reconsidered: The Poetics of Cultural Influence and Exchange II (Summer, 1998), pp. 305-328
Vico Studies in China
The "Tao" and the "Logos
Profile
Derrida on the Mend. Robert Magliola
The New Science in Chinese
The Myth of the Other
The Tao and the Logos
Western Theory and Chinese Reality
The cannibals, the ancients, and cultural critique
Out of the Cultural Ghetto
Scripture, Canon, and Commentary
In this major contribution to the study of the Chinese classics and comparative religion, John Henderson uses the history of exegesis to illuminate mental patterns that have universal and perennial significance for intellectual history. Henderson relates the Confucian commentarial tradition to other primary exegetical traditions, particularly the Homeric tradition, Vedanta, rabbinic Judaism, ancient and medieval Christian biblical exegesis, and Q…
The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic
Other| December 01 1994 The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic Haun Saussy. Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics; Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1993. 296 pp. $37.50. Zhang Longxi Zhang Longxi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Modern Language Quarterly (1994) 55 (4): 458–461. https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-55-4-458 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Zhang…
Out of the Cultural Ghetto. Theory, Politics, and the Study of Chinese Literature
The Tao and the Logos
Questions of the nature of understanding and interpretation—hermeneutics—are fundamental in human life, though historically Westerners have tended to consider these questions within a purely Western context. In this comparative study, Zhang Longxi investigates the metaphorical nature of poetic language, highlighting the central figures of reality and meaning in both Eastern and Western thought: the Tao and the Logos. The author develops a powerfu…
Cultural Differences and Cultural Constructs
Zhang Longxi, Cultural Differences and Cultural Constructs: Reflections on Jewish and Chinese Literalism, Poetics Today, Vol. 19, No. 2, Hellenism and Hebraism Reconsidered: The Poetics of Cultural Influence and Exchange II (Summer, 1998), pp. 305-328
Debating 'Chinese postmodernism
Classics and Interpretation
History and Fictionality
In both China and the West, the literary quality of historical narratives has been fully recognized. In recent postmodern theories, however, the recognition of history as narrative is given a radical interpretation that challenges not only the truth-claim of historical narratives, but also the very distinction between fact and fiction, reality and textuality. By drawing on both Chinese and Western sources, this article revisits the debate on hist…
Allegoresis
Unexpected Affinities
ONE The Fallacy of Cultural Incommensurability TWO 'Faire une perle d'une larme': Reading across Cultures THREE 'Within the infant rind of this weak flower': The Ambivalence of Poison and Medicine FOUR 'A paradise within thee, happier far': The Dialectic of Return and Reversal
Humanism yet Once More
Comparative Political Theory and Cross-Cultural Philosophy
The Complexity of Difference
This contribution is part of a special issue on History and Human Nature, comprising an essay by G.E.R. Lloyd and fifteen invited responses
The True Face of Mount Lu
From a hermeneutic point of view, understanding is always conditioned by one's own horizon and perspective. as the great poet Su Shi remarks, we do not know the "true face of Mount Lu" because what we see constantly changes as we move high or low, far off or up close. But the point of the "hermeneutic circle" is not to legitimize the circularity or subjectivity of one's understanding, but to make us conscious of the challenge. How do we understan…
Valeurs, défense, crise et avenir des sciences humaines
The humanities, particularly literature and the arts, seem always to have to justify their value and legitimacy vis-a-vis some other, more practical, more useful, or more authoritative aspects of human life and activities. In ancient Greece, Plato dismissed poetry as being untrue and irrational, but beginning with Aristotle, there has been a long tradition of defense of poetry in the West. Traditionally the most effective defense was to emphasize…
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