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This book examines the discrepancies between various Western representations of China and the reality of China. It inquires into the cultural, historical, and political contexts within which such discrepancies arise, and it points out the distortion of reality in the tendency toward cultural dichotomies, the tendency to view China as the conceptual opposite of the West.

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"An important, thought-provoking work which raises questions that all comparativists and Asianists should be asking themselves. It will well repay reading by specialists in both fields." -- Bulletin of the Institute of Chinese Literature & Philosophy

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Introduction; 1. The myth of the other; 2. Montaigne, postmodernism and cultural critique; 3. Jewish and Chinese literalism; 4. Out of the cultural ghetto; 5. Western theory and Chinese reality; 6. Postmodernism and the return of the native; Notes; Index.

Mighty Opposites From Dichotomies to Differences

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      Publisher: Stanford University Press
      Publication Date: 01/12/1998
      ISBN13: 9780804734714, 978-0804734714
      ISBN10: 0804734712
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book examines the discrepancies between various Western representations of China and the reality of China. It inquires into the cultural, historical, and political contexts within which such discrepancies arise, and it points out the distortion of reality in the tendency toward cultural dichotomies, the tendency to view China as the conceptual opposite of the West.

      Trade Review
      "An important, thought-provoking work which raises questions that all comparativists and Asianists should be asking themselves. It will well repay reading by specialists in both fields." -- Bulletin of the Institute of Chinese Literature & Philosophy

      Table of Contents
      Introduction; 1. The myth of the other; 2. Montaigne, postmodernism and cultural critique; 3. Jewish and Chinese literalism; 4. Out of the cultural ghetto; 5. Western theory and Chinese reality; 6. Postmodernism and the return of the native; Notes; Index.

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