Thoughts on Prof. Sun Jingyao’s Scholarship: Also on the Generative Logic and Practical Significance of the Principle of “Three Combinations”

Always upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground， Professor Sun Jingyao had dedicated himself to the study and development of comparative literature for a lifetime. In the last decade of his life in particular， in order to further promote disciplinary construction and theoretical innovation on the virgin land of Comparative Literature Studies in China， he devoted himself to field investigations and painstaking personal practice in Guizhou and came up with the conception of “Three Combinations” of Sino-foreign literary theories， Sino-foreign texts， and field studies. This not only led to the creative transformation of his personal academic methodology， but also shed considerable light on disciplinary construction and development of Chinese Comparative Literature in a new era. This paper seeks to explore the evolutionary logic and practical significance of the “Three Combinations” Principle.