Title: Mighty opposites
First published: 1998
Description: This book transcends the boundaries of Chinese studies and scholarship on Western literature and critical theory, bringing together the two fields in a way that questions both the application of Western theory to Chinese materials and the resistance to theory in sinological scholarship.

The book examines the discrepancies between various Western representations of China and the reality of China; inquires into the cultural, historical, and political contexts within which such discrepancies arise; and points out the distortion of reality in the tendency toward cultural dichotomies, the tendency to view China as the conceptual opposite of the West.
Subjects: East and West, Civilization, Western influences, Comparative civilization, China, civilization
Places: China
LC classification: DS721 .Z48 1999