1st Edition

Remapping China at the East-West Intersection

Edited By Jun Zeng, You Wu, Keyan G. Tomaselli Copyright 2026
326 Pages
by Routledge

326 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction
Jun Zeng, You Wu and Keyan G. Tomaselli

 

Section I: Overview: Scope, Methodology and Perspectives

 

1. Cultural Studies in Interhemispherical Perspective. China, Africa, Asia and Australasia
Keyan G. Tomaselli and Yao Xiao

 

2. Existing Approaches of Cultural Studies and Global Dialogism: A Study Beginning with the Debate around ‘Cultural Imperialism'

Huimin Jin

 

3. Cultural Studies as ‘Export’ Discipline and Its Challenges

John Lowe

 

4. Thinking on the Research Methods of Dialogism in Chinese and Western Literary Theories
Jun Zeng

 

5. Globalization, Divergence and Cultural Fecundity: Seeking Harmony in Diversity through François Jullien’s Transcultural Reflection on China

You Wu

 

Section II: Chinese Narratives

 

6. A Critical Response to Western Critics’ Controversial Viewpoints on Chinese Traditional Narrative and Fiction Criticism

Guoqiang Qiao

 

7. Western Theory and Historical Studies of Chinese Literary Criticism

Zhirong Zhu

 

8. New Progression in China’s Narratology Studies: Extensive Reform of Western Narratology and Embryonic Construction of Chinese School of Narratology

Junwu Tian and Shuyue Liu

 

9. Remapping Taipei for Jameson? Rediscovering the Indigenization, Modernity, and Postmodernity of Taipei

Yuyu Wu

 

10. The Renewal of Western Philosophy: On Heidegger’s Expropriation of Lao Tzu’s Thought through Xiao Shiyi

Haitian Zhou

 

Section III: Chinese Art

 

11. Yixiang (意象) in Contemporary Chinese Ink Installation Art

Siying Duan

 

12. Reception and Dissemination of Qiyun Shengdong in the Western Art Criticism

Xia Wang

 

13. Between Calligraphic Untranslatability and Symbolic Translatability: Xu Bing’s Pictographic Art

Zhen Zhang

 

14. The Classical Chinese Gardens as a Medium: Rethinking the Visual Transformation in Chinese Culture in the Twentieth Century

Qi Shen and Yan Liu

 

15. Martial Dance: Stage Wushu as a Performing Art

Guojun Dong

 

Section IV: China and New Media

 

16. Digital Virtuality and Autopoiesis: The Transformation from World Elements of Literature and Arts to Metaverse

Xiaoxi Shan

 

17. The Insight and Limitation of “Post-Theory”: The Poetics Problem of Chinese Cinema Carried by David Bordwell

Yu Chen

 

18. Tradition, Transmediality, and Modernity: Representation of the Double in Chinese Modern Visual Culture

Ting Luo

 

19. Literary Theory and Cultural Practice of “Metaverse” in China

Chun Feng Chen

 

20. Screening China in Carnival: A Powerful China Framed in Participatory Documentary

Jingmei Ouyang

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Biography

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