Critical Zone 1: A Forum of Chinese and Western Knowledge (Critical Zone: A Forum of Chinese and Western Knowledge)
Author: Q. S. Tong (Editor), Shouren Wang (Editor), Douglas Kerr (Editor)
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Edition: N/A
Publication Date: 2005-03-12
Language: English
Paperback: 244 pages
ISBN-10: 9622097065
ISBN-13: 9789622097063
Book Description
Amid the globalizing forces, whether economic, political, or cultural, there remain conspicuous differences and divergences that divide and antagonize scholarly communities. How should we understand and respond to those discursive gaps among different traditions and systems of knowledge production? Critical Zone is a book series that is envisaged as a forum where communities of critical scholarship can come together to share ideas and participate in the debates that preoccupy the humanities today. The series aims to improve understanding across cultures, traditions, discourses, and disciplines and to produce international critical knowledge. Critical Zone is an expression and an embodiment of timely collaboration among scholars in Hong Kong, mainland China, the United States and Europe and is conceived as an intellectual bridge between China and the rest of the world. Each volume in the series has two sections. The first section contains original articles on a set of related topics by scholars from around the world; the second section includes review essays highlighting one or two issues in regional critical scholarship and translations that reflect intellectual trends and concerns in the region, in particular in China.
Review
“The first issue of Critical Zone makes outstanding use of Hong Kong’s unique cultural and geopolitical location to launch an exciting, ambitious, and urgent new project of intellectual collaboration in challenging dialogue. This volume brings together a
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