Biennial Report on Chinese Comparative Literature Studies (2017-2018)

This paper presents a general review of Chinese comparative literature studies in 2017-2018. The report includes the following contents: a retrospection of Chinese comparative literature studies for the past 40 years and its future prospects; development trends of Chinese comparative literature studies in the biennium 2017-2018; academic activities and publications; Chinese-foreign literary relationship studies; comparative poetics; literary anthropology and world minority literature studies; international sinology and overseas Chinese literature studies; translation studies; and interdisciplinary studies. Through these topics, I seek to highlight emergent issues as well as scholars’ reflections on and resolutions of those issues.