"A significant analysis of the conceptual premises that undergird the thinking of poets and theorists in China and the West. Zhang's analysis is marked with an impressive range of reference, intellectual rigor, and telling insights."—Eugene Chen Eoyang, Indiana University
Brings together philosophy and literature, theory and practical criticism, the Western and the non-Western in defining common ground on which East and West may come to a mutual understanding Les mer
"A significant analysis of the conceptual premises that undergird the thinking of poets and theorists in China and the West. Zhang's analysis is marked with an impressive range of reference, intellectual rigor, and telling insights."—Eugene Chen Eoyang, Indiana University
"In this fascinating study of literary hermeneutics, Zhang demonstrates why it makes more sense to see the 'sameness' that underlines different cultural manifestations. At a time when 'difference' between cultural and literary systems has become the accepted working assumption for many comparatists it is most refreshing to see. . . . An impressive case for important common grounds between the Chinese and the Western traditions."—Kang-i Sun Chang, Yale University