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題 名 | From Difference to Complementarity: The Interaction of Western and Chinese Studies |
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作 者 | Chang,Sun Kang-i; | 書刊名 | Tamkang Review |
卷 期 | 34:1 民92.秋 |
頁 次 | 頁41-64 |
分類號 | 541.27 |
關鍵詞 | Difference; Sinology; Complementarity; Gender studies; |
語 文 | 英文(English) |
英文摘要 | The purpose of this paper is to argue that, under the influence of cultural globalization, Western criticism and traditional Chinese studies are becoming two increasingly closely related areas of knowledge: It is important to consider not only their differences but also their complementarity. The author, from a sinological point of view, questions the deliberate overlooking of voluminous publications in gender studies produced by China scholars in different areas. She thinks that there are two possible reasons for such negligence: one is the general belief that, being the cultural “other”-and thus the forever marginal-traditional China can be only of limited use in the study of “universal” women and men. The other assumption is that traditional China, being far removed in time, existed in a world completely different from that of modernity. Due to this cultural imbalance in gender scholarship, cultural globalization has effectively become a “one-way process.” But we need a “two-way process” in comparative studies, which might after all lead us to discover that the West and Asia are not mutually exclusive but mutually empowering. Such a two-way process in the transmission of gender criticism could also be applied, then, to other fields in comparative literature. |
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