The Image of China in the Prague School of Sinology's View

LIU Yun

doi:10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20236211

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LIU Yun. The Image of China in the Prague School of Sinology's View[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2023, 6(2): 160-175. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20236211

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LIU Yun. The Image of China in the Prague School of Sinology's View[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2023, 6(2): 160-175. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20236211

LIU Yun. The Image of China in the Prague School of Sinology's View[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2023, 6(2): 160-175. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20236211

Citation:

LIU Yun. The Image of China in the Prague School of Sinology's View[J]. International Comparative Literature, 2023, 6(2): 160-175. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20236211

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The Image of China in the Prague School of Sinology's View

doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20236211

LIU Yun^,

Anhui University

Received Date: 2023-04-30
Accepted Date: 2023-05-15

Abstract

Abstract

Czech Oriental studies, as well as Chinese studies, show intrinsic qualities that differ from Said's Orientalism. China basically exists as an object of knowledge, not a space to be conquered. By the time of the development of the Prague School of Sinology, the cultural isomorphism between the Czech Republic and China became more prominent, causing the Prague School of Sinology to have a more similar ideological background to contemporary China. Under the combined effect of Czech history and reality, the Prague School's view of China retains some similarities with traditional European Orientalism, but dissolves its colonial expansion factors. The Prague School of Sinology broke through the negative tendencies of European Sinology in China since the 19th century, and at the same time integrated an identification with socialist China; therefore their studies show unique characteristics. First of all, the Prague School of Sinology broke the negative evaluation of traditional Chinese ethics and morality in European history since the mid-18th century and reshaped the positive image of a moralized China, including moralized politics, moralized ethics, moralized art, and moralized socialism. Secondly, the Prague School of Sinology has discussed in detail the characteristics of Chinese art and the Chinese artistic lifestyle, believing that Chinese art has inherent virtue and is an important factor in the Chinese tendency toward beauty and goodness. Finally, the Prague School of Sinology has been committed to finding the fundamental driving force of China's modernity within Chinese society, and has conducted a detailed and in-depth exposition of the relationship between modern and traditional Chinese society, thus affirming the image of a China that is always in the process of development and progress, not the image of a stagnant and backward China. This kind of "Sinocentric view" has critical significance for the construction of a Chinese Path to Modernization.
- Prague School of Sinology,
- Jaroslav Prů,
- š,
- ek,
- the image of China

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