Author：Jian Huang, Xiangling Yu

Abstract: The creation of Ghanaian playwright Ama Ata Aidoo has focused on the fierce conflicts between African culture and Western culture. Aidoo’s masterpiece Anowa shows audience the distortion and oblivion of Ghana’s traditional culture through the ups and downs of the Anowa protagonist after her farewell to her hometown. In resp...

Column：Literature and Culture Studies   057-065   Details

Author：Chengzhen Cai

Abstract: The inextricable intertextuality of John Ruskin’s pictorial writings and symbol systems led to the enhancement of the untranslatability of Ruskinian prose texts. Nevertheless, penetrating through feminine sublimity, there still exists abundant spaces for the re-examination of humanistic heritages of Ruskin’s...

Column：Literature and Culture Studies   066-077   Details

Author：Ziyu Lin

Abstract: The children’s literature magazine Akaitori, founded during the birth of modern Japanese dowa, marked an important turning point in Japanese children’s literature. Akaitori opposed the rigid education model of Japan’s Ministry of Education and created dowa and doyo from an artistic perspective. It provided new opportunities for children to understand the world and improve their self-cultivation. Akaitori aimed to help readers acquire knowledge, establish correct values, develop good reading habits, enhance their Japanese language expression, and master composition writing methods. In the later period, the magazine transformed

Column：Literature and Culture Studies   078-086   Details

Author：Meiqun Wu, Yao Fang

Abstract: There is a long-standing tradition of community writing in English literature. Writers are particularly active in imagining diversified communities in the transitional period. During the Renaissance transitional period from medieval rural to modern urban civilization, the playwright Ben Jonson, feigns communities differently from the perspectives of city and country. In his city comedies, Ben Jonson imagines realistically an ironic city community, criticizing the split of real community. In his country house poetry, Ben Jonson continues to criticize the split city community and fictionalizes a friendly community of country house by eulo...

Column：Literature and Culture Studies   087-095   Details

Author：David Damrosch

Abstract: The Eurocentrism of Comparative Literature has meant that non-European literary texts have been studied through either vague universalism or imperialist exoticism. What can correct, or complement, such orientalist knowledge is contrapuntal reading with local knowledge, to tackle cultural difference not as an anomaly but a fact to be analytically accommoda...

Column：Comparative Literature Studies   096-110   Details

Author：Theo D'haen

Abstract: From different perspectives, Shu-mei Shih, Rey Chow, and Revathi Krishnaswamy have accused Comparative Literature of being inherently Eurocentric in that the comparative study of non-European/Western literatures continues being steered by European/Western paradigms. In what follows I briefly outline their respective positions...

Column：Comparative Literature Studies   111-121   Details

Author：Qikun Hou

Abstract: The English translation and transmission of Mao Zedong’s poems has allowed the world to better understand Mao Zedong and his identity as a poet, which has a positive effect on the global dissemination of traditional Chinese culture, and has become an important part of the strategy of Chinese culture “going out.” Based on the analysis of Mao Zedong’s poems translated by Willis Barnstone, this article focuses on the translator’s thoughts the strategies and methods of poetry translation, and tries to analyze his three translation principles which can be concluded as follows word-for-word translation, literal translation with equivalence and the specific and diverse translation strategies for readers of different foreign language levels and experiences.

Column：Translation Studies   122-130   Details

Author：Xingang Qi, Yunhua Deng

Abstract: Hedging serves special pragmatic functions in English news discourse. However, current research has failed to reveal the interrelationships of the pragmatic motivations of hedging. From the standpoint of subjectivity, this paper constructs a continuum of hedging with respect to the three dimensi...

Column：Linguistic Studies   131-143   Details

Author：Yan Wang, Huan Ren

Abstract: In the context of telling China’s stories to the world, English news reports on intangible cultural heritage play an important role in the dissemination and promotion of traditional Chinese culture in the international community. This study conducts a corpus-based discourse analysis of the news reports on this topic collected from China Daily and News on the Web Corpus, and compares the lexical features, news themes, communicative agents and communication strategies of the Chinese and foreign media discourse from the perspective of Cultural Discourse Studies. The socio-cultural implications of the study may provide insight into the international communication of cultural heritage.

Column：Linguistic Studies   144-156   Details

Author：Xinggang Shen

Abstract: Harold Bloom was a core member of the Yale School of deconstruction in the United States, and his theory of the anxiety of influence is extremely insightful. Since the 1990s, Western modern literary criticism has been limited by politicization, historicization and gendered orientation. Therefore, Bloom returns to l...

Column：Cultural Studies   001-012   Details