Sinologism : An Alternative to Orientalism and Postcolonialism

ISBN-13: 9780415626545 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 320 str.

Ming Dong Gu

Opis

This text explores the process of knowledge production about China and the Chinese civilization and in turn, provides a critique of the ways in which this knowledge is formed.

Recenzje

"I am pleased to write a preface for Professor Ming Dong Gu’s distinguished book, Sinologism: An alternative to Orientalism and Postcolonialism. It is an honor to have been asked to do this. Sinologism is an extremely important and timely book...Sinologism is, in scope, timely importance, and conceptual originality, Gu’s most distinguished book so far. It is the product of many years of research and thinking...I urge all who read this preface to hurry on to read the book itself. It is a wonderfully exciting work of scholarship and analysis. Sinologism is a major contribution to China-Western Studies and cross-cultural studies. It is a superbly learned and wide-ranging book. Its highly original theoretical paradigm is persuasively cogent. The book will be constructively useful as an alternative to Orientalism and postcolonialism."  - from the preface by Prof. J. Hillis Miller.

Spis treści

Introduction: Orientalism and Beyond 1. Knowledge and Cultural Unconscious 2. Sinology, Sinologism, Postcolonialism 3. Sinologism: A Historical Critique 4. The Ideology of Epistemology 5. The Ideology of Methodology 6. The Ethnic Unconscious 7. The Political Unconscious 8. Linguistic Sinologism 9. Conclusion: A Theory of Self-Conscious Reflection

O autorze

Ming Dong Gu is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Dallas, USA.