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Chinese Theories of Reading and Writing: A Route to Hermeneutics and Open
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Chinese Theories of Reading and Writing: A Route to Hermeneutics and Open Poetics Hardback - 2005

by Ming Dong Gu

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A groundbreaking work that uncovers an implicit system of hermeneutics in traditional Chinese thought and aesthetics.

This ambitious work provides a systematic study of Chinese theories of reading and writing in intellectual thought and critical practice. The author maintains that there are two major hermeneutic traditions in Chinese literature: the politico-moralistic mainstream and the metaphysico-aesthetical undercurrent. In exploring the interaction between the two, Ming Dong Gu finds a movement toward interpretive openness. In this, the Chinese practice anticipates modern and Western theories of interpretation, especially literary openness and open poetics. Classic Chinese works are examined, including the Zhouyi (the I Ching or Book of Changes), the Shijing (the Book of Songs or Book of Poetry), and selected poetry, along with the philosophical background of the hermeneutic theories. Ultimately, Gu relates the Chinese practices of reading to Western hermeneutics, offering a cross-cultural conceptual model for the comparative study of reading and writing in general.

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In contemporary literary thought, theories of reading have constituted an international subject of inquiry.

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  • Title Chinese Theories of Reading and Writing: A Route to Hermeneutics and Open Poetics
  • Author Ming Dong Gu
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 348
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher State University of New York Press
  • Publication date April 7, 2005
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780791464236 / 0791464237
  • Weight 1.32 lbs (0.60 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.34 x 6.32 x 1.11 in (23.72 x 16.05 x 2.82 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects Hermeneutics, Chinese classics - History and criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2004016207
  • Dewey Decimal Code 895.109

About the author

Ming Dong Gu is Assistant Professor of Modern Languages at Rhodes College.

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