...Theo D’haen Abstract The articles at the center of this issue of MLQ , Wang Ning’s “French Theories in China and the Chinese Theoretical (Re)construction,” Zhang Jiang’s “On Imposed Interpretation and Chinese Construction of Literary Theory,” and Zhu Liyuan’s “Hillis Miller on the End of Literature...

... literature but also on its literary theory and criticism; Jacques Derrida’s deconstructive critical theory has helped form a unique version of Chinese postmodernism; and Alain Badiou’s Maoist passion and his critical reception in China’s cultural and intellectual circles have spurred Chinese intellectuals...

...Liu Kang Abstract This essay takes Fredric Jameson and Chinese Jamesonism as a case in point to illustrate the Chinese anxiety of influence with Western theory and the battle between (Western) universalism and Chinese exceptionalism. Chinese Jamesonism shows how an eclectic American neo-Marxist...

... cognition. Yet constructing Chinese literary theoretical discourse should discriminate among and examine various contemporary Western literary theories, actively draw on its useful achievements and experiences, and return to Chinese literary practice in an overall way. It is also necessary to adhere...

...Richard King Socialist Cosmopolitanism: The Chinese Literary Universe, 1945–1965 . By Nicolai Volland . New York : Columbia University Press , 2017 . 304 pp . Copyright © 2018 by University of Washington 2018 Chinese cosmopolitanism has been the topic of two recent...

... theater, television drama, and early modern medicine, and she is writing a book on Shakespeare performances in Taiwan as well as constructing a Taiwan Shakespeare database. Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange . By Huang Alexander C. Y. . New York : Columbia University...

...Wendy Larson Wendy Larson is professor of East Asian languages and literatures at the University of Oregon. Her most recent book is From Ah Q to Lei Feng: Freud and Revolutionary Spirit in Twentieth Century China (2009). Her present project is on Chinese culture on the global stage...

...Michelle S. Liu Michelle S. Liu is senior lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Washington. The Hypothetical Mandarin: Sympathy, Modernity, and Chinese Pain . By Hayot Eric . New York : Oxford University Press , 2009 . xiii + 278 pp. © 2011...

...Shuang Shen Modernity with a Cold War Face: Reimagining the Nation in Chinese Literature across the 1949 Divide . By Xiaojue Wang . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Asia Center , 2013 . xiii + 359 pp. Copyright © 2015 by University of Washington 2015 Modernity with a Cold...

...Julie Candler Hayes Ideographia: The Chinese Cipher in Early Modern Europe . By David Porter. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2001. xii + 296 pp. © 2003 University of Washington 2003 Reviews Ideographia: The Chinese Cipher in Early Modern Europe. By David Porter. Stanford...

... and Cultural Studies at Tsinghua University. Apart from his numerous publications in Chinese, his work has appeared in English in New Literary History , Critical Inquiry , boundary 2 , and many other journals. Rethinking Modern Chinese Literature in a Global Context Wang Ning lthough...

...Sun Yifeng Translation has played a critical role in forming the modern Chinese literary canon and continues to stimulate its change and expansion. It is instrumental to the exchange and synthesis of foreign narrative modes and aesthetic paradigms. There are obvious political, cultural...

...Chengzhou He Because the theories of Chinese modernity are mainly organized around a masculine norm and pay insufficient attention to the specificity of women's lives and experiences, it is of great significance to carry out research on women's complex and changing relationships to the political...

...Chen Yongguo Both historically and theoretically, this essay traces the development of modern Chinese poetry, including the Chinese symbolists of the 1920s, the modernists of the 1930s, the Nine Leaves of the 1940s, the obscurists of the 1970s, and the post-obscurists of the Third Generation...

...Douwe Fokkema The title of this essay implies that there is a Chinese postmodernism that differs from American or European postmodernism. But the different postmodernisms also have a common basis, which can be found at the level of unstable signification. First the author briefly sketches how...

... include On Literature (2002), Literature as Conduct: Speech Acts in Henry James (2005), and The J. Hillis Miller Reader (2005). Reading (about) Modern Chinese Literature in a Time of Globalization J. Hillis Miller hy should I (or any American or European, for that matter) Wwant...

...Mark Gamsa Abstract Joseph Brodsky’s poem “Letters from the Ming Dynasty” (1977) stands out among his work for its prominent Chinese theme. This essay considers the poem against the background of some distant European precedents in order to situate it in the history of world literature. It explains...

... a memorable example of how to do it. Gordon Braden, University of Virginia The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic. By Haun Saussy. Meridian: Crossing Aes- thetics; Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1993. 296 pp. $37.50. Haun Saussy’s title may lead...

...Julie Candler Hayes Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Look but Don’t Read: Chinese Characters and the Translating Drive from John Wilkins to Peter Greenaway Julie Candler Hayes n Europe, increasing knowledge of and contacts with China in the Iseventeenth...

... translated into Chinese at the beginning of the twentieth century had a profound influence on Chinese readers’ perception of romance, marriage, and life. Chinese readers were obsessed with reading translated love stories that shed light on the way romantic love was conceived and expressed in the West...