Receipt of Edward Said in Literary Study in China

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10.2991/icelaic-17.2017.167How to use a DOI?

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Edward Said; literary theory; textual criticism

Abstract

Edward Said and his Orientalism were first introduced to China as a literary theory at the beginning of the 1990s, a period of the awakening of Chinese cultural awareness. Said presented a new research perspective for the study of both literary theory and literary textual criticism in China. By this perspective, Chinese literary critics has put forward such propositions as "the Third World literary theory" and "aphasia of Chinese contemporary literary theory", and reinterpreted the texts of the fifth generation of Chinese film as well as some literary works of the Third World. From the receipt of Said's theory in China, it can be said that this theory is regarded as a tool for Chinese literary critics to remove the influence of the western modernity discourse and to establish the "nationality" of Chinese literary theory.

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