China in a Polycentric World: Essays in Chinese Comparative Literature » (1)

Yingjin Zhang is Associate Professor of Chinese, Comparative Literature, and Film Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington.

This collection provides a critical reexamination of the development and current status of comparative literature studies that engage the literary practices of both China and the West. It attempts to refashion literary methodologies and cultural theories in Chinese studies and reread several noncanonical texts in ways that cut across disciplines, genders, and modernities.

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Applies a number of new critical approaches to Chinese or China- related texts, including literary history, comparative poetics, modernist aesthetics, feminist studies, gender theory, and post- colonial discourse. Looks at studies of discipline, discourse, and canon; of gender, sexuality, and body; and of science, modernity, and aesthetics. The 11 papers are from an international conference held at Rutgers University in June 1994. Paper edition (unseen) $19.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)