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Frontiers of Literary Studies in China ISSN 1673-7318 Volume 4 · Number 3 · September 2010 Volume Number 321 LIU Xiangyu Reflections on the Crisis of Comparative Literature as a Discipline 340 HUANG Baosheng “Speech is Civilization Itself”: A Comparison Drawn between the Chinese and Indian Cultural Tradition 367 QIN Haiying The Western Image of Chinese and Its Expression in Poetry: From Victor Segalen’s Stèles to Gérard Macé’s Chinese Lesson 381 WU Guoyi Research on the Translator of Xinxi Xiantan as the First Translated Fiction in China GENG Chuanming V 402 o l Old State and New Mission: A Survey of Utopian Literature u m during the Late Qing Dynasty and the Early Period of the e Republic of China 425 HU Rong N Zhao Yuanren’s Translation of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland u m and Its Significance in Modern Chinese Literary History b e r 442 XUE Tianwei, WANG Quan An Explanation of Gexing 462 DU Guiping The Realization of Poetic Composition and Literary Conception: p How the Creation and Development of Ye Xiaoluan Imagery p Contributes to the Literature History – CN11-5745/I 喝80-982 Frontiers of Literary Studies in China Aims & Scope Frontiers of Literary Studies in China provides world. 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China 2013, 7(3): 325–332 DOI 10.3868/s010-002-013-0018-4 EDITORIAL NOTE Rethinking China, Confucianism and the World from the Late Qing: A Special Issue on Zhang Taiyan and Lu Xun It is a great honor to have been invited to serve as guest editor of an issue of Frontiers of Literary Studies in China containing essays by my teachers and colleagues on Zhang Taiyan and Lu Xun, with a particular focus on China’s literature, humanistic tradition and their relation to the modern era, starting in the nineteenth century and running to the present. The volume stems from a conference organized in Sydney with the help of my colleagues in Chinese Studies at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). We benefitted from the support of our former Head of School, Hans Hendrischke, who secured conference funding from the Hanban through the good offices of then newly-founded Confucius Institute at UNSW and from the organizational help of Lu Jia, Barbara Hendrischke and others. In my own research, which was directly related to the topic of the conference, I have also benefitted from support from both the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation and the Australian Research Council, all of whom I should like to thank at the outset. The antecedents of this conference were the Late Qing Living Texts Workshops held at Columbia University
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