2020 Vol. 3, No. 3

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Material Evidence Priority: Quadruple Evidence Method and the “Jade-Making China Trilogy”
YE Shuxian
2020, 3(3): 415-437. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20203301
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The school of literary anthropology, an outstanding representative of interdisciplinary research in Chinese comparative literature, has designed and completed three major scientific research projects in the past ten years, which are simply summarized as the "Jade-Making China Trilogy," comprising "M...
The Yijing as a Receptive Text: A Phenomenological Research
DOU Keyang
2020, 3(3): 438-451. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20203302
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In the reception of Yijing 《易经》(also as The Book of Changes), the existence of the text of Yijing as a reception text should not be regarded as an objective history book or simple record of divination, but as a typical living text consisting of strata from Yan 言 (the stratum of sound and concrete me...
“Connatching”: An Important Thinking Mode in Traditional Chinese Culture
RAN Qibin
2020, 3(3): 452-468. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20203303
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Connatching" (connecting and matching) is an important feature in traditional Chinese culture:a thinking mode to establish connections/linkages between things and phenomena through subjective bridging. Specifically, based on their shapes, appearances, properties, and characteristics, matchings and m...
Nationalist and Anti-Nationalist Feminist Discourses in Late Imperial China
WANG Lang
2020, 3(3): 469-489. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20203304
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With the spread of Western ideals that valorize gender equality and the popularization of women's education in late imperial China, feminism advanced with unprecedented impact. Qiu Jin 秋瑾 (1877-1907), who espoused nationalism, became the most famous feminist in that era. Previous scholarship has pop...
Eurydice's Face: the Paradox of Mallarmé's Musical Poetics
WU Tsaiyi
2020, 3(3): 490-506. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20203305
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Inspired by Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003) who compares Stéphane Mallarmé's (1842-1898) poetics to Orpheus's descent into the underworld, this article seeks to account for the relationship between the two seemingly contradictory sides of Mallarmé as a psychological journey-one that seeks the mystery o...
The Great Learning in Russia
A. I. Kobzev
2020, 3(3): 507-518. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20203306
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Through the research of the fate and evolution of the earliest Latin translation of the Confucian canon The Great Learning published in Russia and its subsequent Russian translations, this paper reconstructs the process of the translation, influence and acceptance of The Great Learning in Russia and...
The Journey to the West in the French Knowledge Space: From the Jesuits to Théodore Pavie
WU Hanlai
2020, 3(3): 519-532. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20203307
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This article aims to reveal the place occupied by the Journey to the West in the intellectual sphere of nineteenth-century France, from the perspective of the history of science and knowledge that has developed since the second half of the twentieth century. The author describes the formation of the...
Mu Xin: An Outsider of the Circle of Contemporary Writers
JIANG Yuqin
2020, 3(3): 533-542. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20203308
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Mu Xin is a controversial writer. His gentle, cultivated, and softly-voiced manner of expression is difficult for many readers. While his writings continue the tradition of Chinese high culture, they are also deeply influenced by European aristocratic culture. The two cultures that embody internal h...
From Electronic Pets in Cyberspace to the “One-all-alone” in the Posthuman Era: A Psychoanalytical Interpretation of Spike Jonze's Her
WANG Duoxiang
2020, 3(3): 543-554. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20203309
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Spike Jonze's film Her is the story of a man falling in love with an artificial intelligence voice system. The opposition between human and artificial intelligence is a problem that must be faced in the posthuman era. Studying this film with the subject theory of Lacanian-Žižek psychoanalysis upgrad...
Critical Theory, Comparative Literature, and Dialogue between Theories: Interview with Peter V. Zima
ZHAO Bing, ZHANG Cong, Peter V. Zima
2020, 3(3): 557-564. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20203310
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As one of the most eloquent voices on critical theory, sociological aesthetics, and comparative literature in the German-speaking world, Peter V. Zima shared in this interview his idea about these fields. He explained how he has tried to reconstruct both critical theory and world literature by givin...
David Wang and JI Jin, eds. Humanistic Vistas of Cosmopolitanism
SUN Lianwu
2020, 3(3): 567-570. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20203311
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Iovene, Paola. Tales of Futures Past: Anticipation and the Ends of Literature in Contemporary China
XIE Danling
2020, 3(3): 571-573. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20203312
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HUANG Jincheng. Organic Modernity: The Young Hegel and The Aesthetic Discourse of Modernity
WANG Yaochong
2020, 3(3): 574-580. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20203313
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MENG Qingshu. Echo, Mirror, Dialogue: Chinese and Japanese Culture and Literature
LIU Yan
2020, 3(3): 581-586. doi: 10.19857/j.cnki.ICL.20203314
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