Postcolonial Context of Cross-Cultural Communication (New Generation Scholars' Series)

Author: Jiang Fei
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: Since the mid-1990s, there has been an increasing number of works on Western cross-cultural studies entering China. How to understand, interpret, and grasp Western cross-cultural theories has become a keen interest for Chinese scholars. In this work, Jiang Fei organically combines Western postcolonial cultural criticism theory with cross-cultural communication research. The author's perspective is insightful, and the writing is passionate, filled with brilliant arguments and profound insights. — Yin Yun Gong, Director of the Institute of Journalism and Communication, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Researcher, and Doctoral Supervisor
Regarding "postcolonial" cultural and literary theory, there are already many papers and books in China, but overall, they remain more introductory than research-oriented, and even when research is conducted, it lacks systematicity. Jiang Fei's manuscript provides a relatively comprehensive and in-depth introduction and critique of the origins, connotations, objectives, significance, and shortcomings of postcolonial theory. It stands out as one of the most outstanding works in its category in China to date. Research on postcolonial theory often tends toward two extremes: one is to engage in emotionally charged critiques of Western "cultural colonialism" from a narrow nationalist stance, while the other is to unconsciously endorse Western discourse hegemony, thereby falling into the trap of Western colonial discourse. This work effectively avoids both of these biases. — Zhang Guofeng, Researcher at the Institute of Foreign Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
This is a deeply insightful book in Chinese academia on the cultural questions of postcolonialism. It employs extensive foreign-language materials and explores postcolonial theory from four dimensions: temporal perspective (mechanism theory), spatial perspective (alienation theory), subject perspective (hybridity theory), and discourse perspective (hegemony theory). The author enters and demonstrates the internal logic and discourse of postcolonial theory from multiple angles. The author clearly recognizes that research on postcolonial theory can only uncover its profound meaning in deconstruction and construction by moving beyond nationalism and Westernism into "universalism." The author's research clarifies certain misconceptions in the field of postcolonial theory research and advances domestic studies to a new level. — Wang Yuanchuan, Professor at the Department of Chinese, Peking University
This book is a specialized study on postcolonial cultural criticism using the perspective analysis method. Through the temporal, spatial, subject, and discourse perspectives, it discusses the "mechanism theory," "alienation theory," "hybridity theory," and "hegemony theory" of postcolonial cultural theory, proposing an interpretive framework for understanding foreign postcolonial cultural criticism. It is a systematic and comprehensive monograph in China that thoroughly explores postcolonial cultural criticism theory. Employing new methods and a broad perspective, the book clarifies important domestic and international postcolonial cultural criticism arguments as much as possible. It places the theory within the long history of cultural development in human society, uncovering its profound humanistic ultimate significance. This, to some extent, establishes the academic and historical significance of postcolonial cultural criticism theory in the development of human culture, deepening theoretical understanding of postcolonial cultural criticism. The book also combines literary studies with media studies for examination, introducing postcolonial theory into media studies for the first time, highlighting the characteristics of cultural studies in the contemporary era.