This article reflects on the circulation and transformation of the concept of"local knowledge"in the academic circles in London and Beijing.It aims to shed light on the ways in which a"keyword"became intertwined with ...
The culture wars that simmer within any nation may have been escalating recently;but regardless of their national settings or milieus,many of these wars are informed by two opposing paradigms of culture.This paper ana...
This paper examines the inextricable relationship between the uncanny effects of knocking down Shanghai’s central district and their traumatic post-colonial implications.The value of the Chinese ruin,with its apocaly...
The purpose of the present paper is to explore the ways in which John Steinbeck utilizes the ideas of cosmopolitanism and socialism in his masterpiece The Grapes of Wrath(1939)interweaving them into the U.S.reality of...
For several centuries,the history of the West has merged with the history of the world.The global economy of knowledge is structured around epistemic inequalities,hegemonies,and dominations.A clear division of scienti...
In contrast to the continued decline of liberal arts education in the US,there has been a revived interest in liberal arts education in Asian countries in recent years.Grounded in a comprehensive understanding of the ...
At the beginning of the 21st century,new variables,such as globalization and homogenization,international terrorism,and mass-migration have started to change the socio-political fabric of the world.The implications of...
the Tsinghua University Initiative Scientific Research Program(20141081110);Major Research Project funded by Beijing Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Science(18WXA002)。
Asian-American literature is often identified as foreign by Asians and considered inauthentic American literature by the American mainstream.However,this minority group literature is unique in its characteristics so t...
In this diverse and rich collection of essays, the authors challenge a common but misleading conception about Confucianism in China, that is, that Confucianism was inward-looking, ethnocentric, and static. The essays ...