Longxi Zhang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3699618 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Longxi Zhang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Longxi |
| FAMILY NAME | Zhang |
| SIGNATURE | ZHANG L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hunan Normal University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Artifice of Eternity”
History and literature are different ways to satisfy the basic human desire to preserve what is memorable, beautiful, or painful against all-devouring time and the transience of human experience, and to commemorate what is meaningful and valuable in our personal or collective memories. It is thus not surprising that history and literature share certain structural similarities in recuperating the past with vivid descriptions, believable characteri…
Zhuangzi and the Happy Fish
The Zhuangzi is a deliciously protean text: it is concerned not only with personal realization, but also (albeit incidentally) with social and political order. In many ways the Zhuangzi established a unique literary and philosophical genre of its own, and while clearly the work of many hands, it is one of the finest pieces of literature in the classical Chinese corpus. It employs every trope and literary device available to set off rhetorically c…
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…
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…
Mighty Opposites
This book transcends the boundaries of Chinese studies and scholarship on Western literature and critical theory, bringing together the two fields in a way that questions both the application of Western theory to Chinese materials and the resistance to theory in sinological scholarship. Recognizing that social and historical reality is external to discourse and that knowledge has an inevitable ethical import, the author argues for the importance …
The Tao and the Logos
The New Science in Chinese
Vico Studies in China
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Vico Studies in China
The New Science in Chinese
The Tao and the Logos
Mighty Opposites
This book transcends the boundaries of Chinese studies and scholarship on Western literature and critical theory, bringing together the two fields in a way that questions both the application of Western theory to Chinese materials and the resistance to theory in sinological scholarship. Recognizing that social and historical reality is external to discourse and that knowledge has an inevitable ethical import, the author argues for the importance …
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
Zhuangzi and the Happy Fish
The Zhuangzi is a deliciously protean text: it is concerned not only with personal realization, but also (albeit incidentally) with social and political order. In many ways the Zhuangzi established a unique literary and philosophical genre of its own, and while clearly the work of many hands, it is one of the finest pieces of literature in the classical Chinese corpus. It employs every trope and literary device available to set off rhetorically c…
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…
The Artifice of Eternity”
History and literature are different ways to satisfy the basic human desire to preserve what is memorable, beautiful, or painful against all-devouring time and the transience of human experience, and to commemorate what is meaningful and valuable in our personal or collective memories. It is thus not surprising that history and literature share certain structural similarities in recuperating the past with vivid descriptions, believable characteri…
Chinese history and philosophy (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Biology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · History (2 works) · History of literature (2 works)