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"In six studies of interpretations of China, the author examines the ways in which the networks of assumption and consensus that make communication possible within a discipline affect collective thinking about the object of study.
Among other subjects, these essays offer a historical and historiographical introduction to the problem of comparison and deal with translation, religious proselytization, semiotics, linguistics, cultural bilingualism, writing systems, the career of postmodernism in China, and the role of China as an imaginary model for postmodernity in the West.
Against the reigning simplifications, these essays seek to restore the interpretation of China to the complexity and impurity of the historical situations in which it is always caught." "The chief goal of the essays in this book is not to expose errors in interpreting China but to use these misunderstandings as a basis of devising better methodologies for comparative studies."--BOOK JACKET.
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Great Walls of Discourse and Other Adventures in Cultural China (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
April 15, 2002, Harvard University Asia Center
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