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Introduction Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/jclc/article-pdf/9/1/1/1594027/1roddy.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 12 July 2022 STEPHEN J. RODDY This special issue of the Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture has brought an exceptionally accomplished group of scholars together to reflect on the impact of theoretical and methodological trends on our field. Surveying the past achievements, current state, and future prospects of the study of premodern Chinese literature from broadly cosmopolitan theoretical and comparative perspectives, these scholars address, inter alia, the following questions: What place do works written in aWestern language and/or from perspectives informed substantially by non-Chinese scholarship occupy within the full ambit of Chinese literary studies? If scholarship written in English or other Western languages is for the most part pitched primarily to non-Chinese audiences, what are its strengths and weaknesses for native-speaking readers? And, how has theoreti- cally informed work complemented and drawn upon the rapidly expanding body of Chinese- and other East Asian–language research in these fields? Finally, what is the current state of the dialogue between scholarship on Chinese literature— whether in Western languages or not—and that of other literatures? Has it resulted in any significant impacts on the latter, or on the literary field as a whole? Each http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture Duke University Press

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Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/jclc/article-pdf/9/1/1/1594027/1roddy.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 12 July 2022 STEPHEN J. RODDY This special issue of the Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture has brought an exceptionally accomplished group of scholars together to reflect on the impact of theoretical and methodological trends on our field. Surveying the past achievements, current state, and future prospects of the study of premodern Chinese literature from broadly cosmopolitan theoretical and comparative perspectives, these scholars address, inter alia, the following questions: What place do works written in aWestern language and/or from perspectives informed substantially by non-Chinese scholarship occupy within the full ambit of Chinese literary studies? If scholarship written in English or other Western languages is for the most part pitched primarily to non-Chinese audiences, what are its strengths and weaknesses for native-speaking readers? And, how has theoreti- cally informed work complemented and drawn upon the rapidly expanding body of Chinese- and other East Asian–language research in these fields? Finally, what is the current state of the dialogue between scholarship on Chinese literature— whether in Western languages or not—and that of other literatures? Has it resulted in any significant impacts on the latter, or on the literary field as a whole? Each

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Published: Apr 1, 2022

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