Abstract
In the past few decades, the discourse of a “Chinese School of Comparative Literature” has received much attention among Chinese scholars of comparative literature. The notion of a Chinese school is in reference to the “French School” and “American School” in the historical development of comparative literature as a discipline. However, those Western-centric frameworks of comparative literary studies such as the French School and the American School have been widely challenged and largely abandoned in Western academia. Nowadays methods and perspectives on conducting comparative literary studies have become more diverse. This essay questions the discourse of a Chinese school, calls for a rethinking of Chinese literary studies, and aims at contributing to the theory of world literature in the light of world-systems theory as well as Chinese reality.
Keywords
Chinese School, world literature, comparative literature, world-systems theory
First Page
20
Last Page
28
Recommended Citation
Zhang, Zhen, and Xiaopeng Lu. 2025. "Reflections on the Origin and Development of the Discourse of the Chinese School of Comparative Literature." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 44, (6): pp.20-28. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol44/iss6/3
