Our Modernity: The Cross-cultural Potential of Chinese Scholarship

Abstract

Abstract: The issues of "how the west understands China" and "how China understands China" have been the two sides of the same coin in the global scholarship. Both China and the West are trapped by the same issue of understanding China, because modern Chinese social structure and basic aspects of mentality are shaped by modernity, and China and the west are equally confronted by the challenges of modernity under the circumstances of globalization. Chinese modernity came into being due to the western impact, and consequently Chinese tradition has become the Other for contemporary China, which means that there is a gap between tradition and modernity. A keen awareness of the fracture in China caused by modernity is helpful for us to reappreciate the value of tradition with a more pragmatic attitude. Seen positively, the inner tension of Chinese academic thought caused by the coexistence of tradition and modernity, China and the West, would breed cross-cultural potential to promote Chinese scholarship to complete self-construction through drawing on multifarious thoughts.

Key words: Chinese Modernity, the Other, the cross-cultural, Chinese scholarship

Liu Yiqing . Our Modernity: The Cross-cultural Potential of Chinese Scholarship[J]. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art.

References

[1]W.H.奥登:“希腊人和我们”, 王敖译。《新诗评论》2 (2005) :238-64。[Auden, W.H..“The Greeks and Us.”Trans.Wang Ao.New Poetry Review 2 (2005) :238-64.] [2]陈寅恪:《陈寅恪诗集》, 陈美延、陈流求编。北京:清华大学出版社, 1993年。[Chen, Yinke.Collected Poems of Chen Yinke.Eds.Chen Meiyan and Chen Liuqiu.Beijing:Tsinghua University Press, 1993.] [3]---:《金明馆丛稿二编》。上海:上海古籍出版社, 1980年。[---.Collected Works of Jinming Mansion.Shanghai:Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House, 1980.] [4]冯友兰:《三松堂自序》。北京:人民出版社, 2008年。[Feng, Youlan.The Preface to Three-Pine Studio.Beijing:People’s Publishing House, 2008.] [5]江怡:“如何解读《论语》的‘微言大义’---谈伍晓明《吾道一以贯之:重读孔子》”, 《中国图书评论》4 (2007) :4-8。[Jiang, Yi.“How to Interpret Sublime Words with Deep Meaning in Confucian Analects:Wu Xiaoming’s My Way Is Penetrated by a Single Thread.”China Book Review 4 (2007) :4-8.] [6]金岳霖:《金岳霖学术论文选》。北京:中国社会科学出版社, 1990年。[Jin, Yuelin.Selected Academic Works of Jin Yuelin.Beijing:China Social Sciences Publishing House, 1990.] [7]沃尔夫冈·顾彬:“误读的正面意义”, 王祖哲译, 《文史哲》1 (2005) :5-12。[Kubin, Wolfgang.“The Positive Meaning of Misreading.”Trans.Wang Zuzhe.Literature, History, and Philosophy1 (2005) :5-12.] [8]---“‘只有中国人理解中国’---关于东西方相互理解的一个问题”, 王祖哲译。《华文文学》3 (2006) :5-10。[---.“Only the Chinese Understands China:A Question of Mutual Understanding Between East and West.”Trans.Wang Zuzhe.Taiwan, Hong Kong and Overseas Chinese Literature 3 (2006) :5-10.] [9]李零:《简帛古书与学术源流》。北京:生活·读书·新知三联书店, 2004年。[Li, Ling.Bamboo Slips and Silk Books and Academic Fountainhead.Beijing:SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2004.] [10]李雪涛:“与顾彬对谈翻译与汉学研究”, 《中国翻译》2 (2014) :52-60。[Li, Xuetao.“Conversation on Translation and Sinology with Wolfgang Kubin.”Chinese Translators Journal 2 (2014) :52-60.] [11]牟宗三:《中国哲学史十九讲》。上海:上海古籍出版社, 1998年。[Mou, Zongsan.Nineteen Lectures on the History of Chinese Philosophy.Shanghai:Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House, 1998.] [12]奥克塔维奥·帕斯:《太阳石》, 赵振江译。北京:北京燕山出版社, 2014年。[Paz, Octavio.Sunstone.Trans.Zhao Zhenjiang.Beijing:Beijing Yanshan Publishing House, 2014.] [13]包华石:“小心西方诡辩束缚中国话语”, 《环球时报·国际论坛版》2008年3月3日。[Powers, Martin.“Mind Western Sophistry to Bind Chinese Discourse.”Global Times:International Forum Edition3 Mar.2008.] [14]浦江清:《生命无涯:浦江清随笔》。北京:北京大学出版社, 2009年。[Pu, Jiangqing.Life Without Limits:Essays of Pu Jiangqing.Beijing:Peking University Press, 2009.] [15]田晓菲:《赭城》。南京:江苏人民出版社, 2006年。[Tian, Xiaofei.The Ocher City.Nanjing:Jiangsu People’s Publishing House, 2006.] [16]王国维:《观堂别集》, 《王国维遗书》第四册。上海:上海书店, 1983年。[Wang, Guowei.Collected Works of Guantang.Posthumous Works of Wang Guowei.Vol.4.Shanghai:Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House, 1983.] [17]伍晓明:《文本之间---从孔子到鲁迅》。北京:北京大学出版社, 2012年。[Wu, Xiaoming.Among the Texts:From Confucius to Lu Xun.Beijing:Peking University Press, 2012.] [18]---:《吾道一以贯之:重读孔子》。北京:北京大学出版社, 2003年。[----.My Way Is Penetrated by a Single Thread.Beijing:Peking University Press, 2003.] [19]张祥龙:《德国哲学、德国文化与中国哲理》。上海:上海外语教育出版社, 2012年。[Zhang, Xianglong.German Philosophy, German Culture and Chinese Philosophy.Shanghai:Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press, 2012.] [20]赵进中:“十九世纪德国学者眼中的中国人”, 《北大最佳讲座》 (第二辑) , 北大在线主编。北京:世界知识出版社, 2002年。59-72。[Zhao, Jinzhong.“The Chinese in the Eyes of German Scholars in the 19th Century.”Best Lectures in Peking University, Second Series.Ed.Peking University Online.Beijing:China Social Sciences Publishing House, 2002.59-72.] [21]朱自清:《语文零拾》。长沙:岳麓书社出版社, 2011年。[Zhu, Ziqing.Essays on Language and Literature.Changsha:Yuelu Publishing House, 2011.]