Abstract
Discourse power is a problem emerged when Chinese art encounters the Western discourse hegemony. Theoretical expression is crucial to the acquisition and presence of the discourse power over art, while the discourse power over literature and art theory is essential to Chinese art discourse power. International status is an entailing problem of the internationality of discourse power and it encompasses discourse power into the global framework of totality. However, in the global framework of literary and art theory China remains silent, and thus the issue of the international status of Chinese literary and art theory emerges. Chinese theoretical scholars have been pursuing the internationalization of Chinese theory, but the two major difficulties of insufficient translation and Western centralism become unavoidable for Chinese theory to achieve international status. The paper claims that the essential solution to the difficulties is to establish the spirit and identity of Chinese literary and art theory to establish a theory of its own, its international influence to achieve theoretical diversity, and help to construct world literary theory.
First Page
135
Last Page
147
Recommended Citation
Shi, Shengxun. 2013. "Discourse Power and the International Status of Chinese Contemporary Literary and Art Theory." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 33, (5): pp.135-147. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol33/iss5/6
