... cultural interactionism plural epistemology Zhang Dongsun has been hailed in academic circles as one of the leading scholars of Western philosophy, an influential thinker, an active political commentator, and a trenchant cultural critic in the Republic of China period. As a well-established modern...

... Latour sets out to defend the deconstructive enterprise. Latour points out that “reality” is always posited as a unitary but mute existence, while representation is plural and inherently proximal. Representational politics is waged in the faith that there is a court of final appeal in the realm...

... this question, this article interrogates three historical moments—the 1920s, the 1950s, and the 1980s—to trace the variations in the Chinese epistemological assumptions about the Orient. 6 Before exploring the 1920s Chinese dispute over the concept of the Orient, it is crucial first to tease out...

... sounds are represented in the audiovisual space of the film; she omits any reference to the film's epistemology or reception by local audiences. Like Wang, Ma Lunpeng addresses how the two different mediums correlated and were intermingled. He applies the concept of paracinematic taste, specifically...

... as a slippery slope leading to the dissolution of existing disciplines, I would sooner suggest that we see this plurality of reading strategies as an exciting frontier for literary analysis. Specifically, it is one that challenges us as readers to reassess existing literary paradigms and ensure...