Can China Think?

Inaugural lecture delivered on Thursday 11 December 2008

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Asian, Far Eastern
Cover of the book Can China Think? by Anne Cheng, Collège de France
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Author: Anne Cheng ISBN: 9782722602281
Publisher: Collège de France Publication: May 23, 2013
Imprint: Collège de France Language: English
Author: Anne Cheng
ISBN: 9782722602281
Publisher: Collège de France
Publication: May 23, 2013
Imprint: Collège de France
Language: English

Since the Age of Enlightenment in Europe, much scholarly work has been done on “thinking China”. A result has been the most contradictory representations which attempt to reconcile “philosophical China” with “Oriental despotism”, or an eternal aesthetic and consensual China with a more unpredictable and disturbing vision of the country. To break free of these tenacious clichés, Anne Cheng proposes that we listen carefully to what Chinese authors actually have to say. After all, is China not herself able to think and conceive of her own reality?

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Since the Age of Enlightenment in Europe, much scholarly work has been done on “thinking China”. A result has been the most contradictory representations which attempt to reconcile “philosophical China” with “Oriental despotism”, or an eternal aesthetic and consensual China with a more unpredictable and disturbing vision of the country. To break free of these tenacious clichés, Anne Cheng proposes that we listen carefully to what Chinese authors actually have to say. After all, is China not herself able to think and conceive of her own reality?

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