Image and the "Image" (Roots of the Concept of Image in Chinese and Western Poetics)

Author: Zhao Xinlin
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: This book aims to examine the status and achievements of the study of ancient Chinese traditional poetics in overseas Sinology, focusing on selecting several fundamental concepts for research. It seeks to explore the variations of these basic concepts of traditional Chinese poetics in a Western context and their underlying causes, while also investigating the extent to which Chinese and Western poetics can communicate within their differences. The goal is to make new discoveries or breakthroughs in this field, thereby promoting the further development of comparative studies in Chinese and Western poetics.