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Chinese Theories of Fiction: A Non-Western Normative System

Chinese Theories of Fiction: A Non-Western Normative System Book Reviews / T’oung Pao 94 (2008) 360-421 397 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008 DOI: 10.1163/008254308X385950 Chinese Th eories of Fiction: A Non-Western Normative System . By Ming Dong Gu, SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture. Albany, State University of New York Press, 2006. xvi + 286 pp. Notes, Selected Bibliography, Index. ISBN 0-7914-6815-1 (hb) Professor Gu is a widely-read and very productive scholar. He is not only at home in Chinese primary and secondary sources, but he is also well-acquainted with English-language western literary theory. He does not shy away from large top- ics, and delights in broad comparisons between China and the West. Eager to show the originality of pre-modern Chinese literature in theory and practice, he at the same time often argues that Chinese writers and critics, if not in their for- mulation then at least by implication, prefi gured developments that more com- monly are seen as unique to the modern West. In Professor Gu’s publications, the argument by necessity often proceeds on a level of abstract generalities. For instance, in the fi nal chapter of the volume under review, “the Chinese conception of fi ction” is said to be “an artistic http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png T'oung Pao Brill

Chinese Theories of Fiction: A Non-Western Normative System

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T'oung Pao , Volume 94 (4): 397 – Jan 1, 2008
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Book Reviews / T’oung Pao 94 (2008) 360-421 397 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008 DOI: 10.1163/008254308X385950 Chinese Th eories of Fiction: A Non-Western Normative System . By Ming Dong Gu, SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture. Albany, State University of New York Press, 2006. xvi + 286 pp. Notes, Selected Bibliography, Index. ISBN 0-7914-6815-1 (hb) Professor Gu is a widely-read and very productive scholar. He is not only at home in Chinese primary and secondary sources, but he is also well-acquainted with English-language western literary theory. He does not shy away from large top- ics, and delights in broad comparisons between China and the West. Eager to show the originality of pre-modern Chinese literature in theory and practice, he at the same time often argues that Chinese writers and critics, if not in their for- mulation then at least by implication, prefi gured developments that more com- monly are seen as unique to the modern West. In Professor Gu’s publications, the argument by necessity often proceeds on a level of abstract generalities. For instance, in the fi nal chapter of the volume under review, “the Chinese conception of fi ction” is said to be “an artistic

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