Remapping China at the East-West Intersection

Remapping China at the East-West Intersection, composed predominantly from back copies of Critical Arts, draws on the rich reservoir of studies that map a diverse range of research on Chinese literature, art and culture at the intersection of East-West encounters. This compilation offers a comprehensive exploration of Chinese cultural studies through the lens of global dialogism and intercultural exchange. Structured into four thematic sections—Overview, Chinese Narratives, Chinese Art, and China and New Media—the book brings together twenty scholarly articles that collectively examine the complexities and nuances of Chinese culture in a global context. The overview section sets the stage by discussing the scope, methodology, and perspectives of cultural studies from an interhemispherical viewpoint. It is followed by the Chinese narratives section, in which scholars critically engage with traditional Chinese narrative forms and their reception in Western contexts. The next section on Chinese art focuses on the intersection of traditional and contemporary Chinese art forms. Finally, the China and New Media section addresses the impact of digital technologies on Chinese culture. Through these diverse perspectives, this book not only contributes to ongoing academic discourses but also deepens the understanding of China’s cultural heritage and its evolving role in the global context. This volume re-presents for an international audience a set of theories, methodologies, and studies that have been both shaped by and have themselves influenced global trends. By integrating interdisciplinary and dialogic approaches, the book offers fresh insights into the dynamic exchange and interactions between Chinese and Western cultures.

Table of Contents:
Introduction 1. Cultural Studies in Interhemispherical Perspective. China, Africa, Asia and Australasia 2. Existing Approaches of Cultural Studies and Global Dialogism: A Study Beginning with the Debate around ‘Cultural Imperialism 3. Cultural Studies as ‘Export’ Discipline and Its Challenges 4. Thinking on the Research Methods of Dialogism in Chinese and Western Literary Theories 5. Globalization, Divergence and Cultural Fecundity: Seeking Harmony in Diversity through François Jullien’s Transcultural Reflection on China 6. A Critical Response to Western Critics’ Controversial Viewpoints on Chinese Traditional Narrative and Fiction Criticism 7. Western Theory and Historical Studies of Chinese Literary Criticism 8. New Progression in China’s Narratology Studies: Extensive Reform of Western Narratology and Embryonic Construction of Chinese School of Narratology 9. Remapping Taipei for Jameson? Rediscovering the Indigenization, Modernity, and Postmodernity of Taipei 10. The Renewal of Western Philosophy: On Heidegger’s Expropriation of Lao Tzu’s Thought through Xiao Shiyi 11. Yixiang (意象) in Contemporary Chinese Ink Installation Art 12. Reception and Dissemination of Qiyun Shengdong in the Western Art Criticism 13. Between Calligraphic Untranslatability and Symbolic Translatability: Xu Bing’s Pictographic Art 14. The Classical Chinese Gardens as a Medium: Rethinking the Visual Transformation in Chinese Culture in the Twentieth Century 15. Martial Dance: Stage Wushu as a Performing Art 16. Digital Virtuality and Autopoiesis: The Transformation from World Elements of Literature and Arts to Metaverse 17. The Insight and Limitation of “Post-Theory”: The Poetics Problem of Chinese Cinema Carried by David Bordwell 18. Tradition, Transmediality, and Modernity: Representation of the Double in Chinese Modern Visual Culture 19. Literary Theory and Cultural Practice of “Metaverse” in China 20. Screening China in Carnival: A Powerful China Framed in Participatory Documentary

About the Author :
Jun Zeng, Professor, College of Liberal Arts, Shanghai University, China You Wu, Professor, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, East China Normal University, China Keyan G. Tomaselli, Distinguished Professor, Humanities Dean's Office, University of Johannesburg, South Africa