In this book are 33 pieces of collected speeches,conference presentations,lectures and reports all written over seas by the author during the past twenty years Under the broad title of comparative literature and comparative culture,these pieces fall naturally into five categories,namely Comparative Literture Theory and the Development of Chinese Comparative listerature Studies on Transcultural Theory,Comparative Poetics,Relationships between Chinese and Western Literatures and Studies on Feminis

Preface
Comparative Literature Theory and the Development of Chinese Coparative Literature
Comparative Literature in China
Comparative Literature and the Humanistic Spirit in the Coming Century
Multicultures and the Development of Comparative Literature
Plurality of Cultures in the Context of Globalisation and a New Perspective of Comparative Literature
Notes on Comparative Literature at the Turn of the Century
Teaching Literary History in China and the Canon of Comparative Literature
Studies on Transcultural Theory
Cultural Differences and Cultural Misreadings
Cultural Relativism and the Principle of Harmony in Difference
Cultural Self-Consciousness and Cultural Coexistence
Understandings of Reciprocal Cognition
Public Culture inh China Today
Comparative Poetics
Images of the Moon in Different Cultures
The Metaphor of the Mirror in Western and Chinese Poetics
The Transformation of Narrative Modes:From Traditional to Modern Chinese Fiction
Chinese Cultural Heritage and Its Transmission
Word,Symbol and Meaning in the Context of Chinese Poetics
Some Characteristics of Chinese Intellectuals Found in Fiction
The Upright Gentleman in Confucianism and the Perfect Man in Taoism:On Their Attitudes toward Melancholy
Relationships Between Chinese and Western literatures
On Western Literary Theory in China
Nietzsche in China
Nietzsche,Zola,and Mao Dun
On Two Controversies over Realism:A Comparative Study of the Controversy Between Lukacs and Brecht and Between Hu Feng and Zhou Yang
Fin-de-Siecle Decadence in China:Shao Xunmei,a Decadent Poet in China
Studies on Chinese Intellectuals and Chinese Women
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Selected Bibliography
Glossary
Index