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The renaissance of comparative literature in China was heralded by the publication of Qian Zhongshu’s seminal work Guan zhui pian or Limited Views. Limited Views in 1979, which richly and comprehensively realized the unique nature of comparative literature as a “peripheral discipline,” is “most expansive and open,” most “incapable of reduction to a specific system of scientific or literary research.”
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“Shi keyi yuan” [Our Sweetest Songs], Wenxue pinglun, Issue 1, 1981.
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Jiuwen sipian , pp. 26–27.
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Guan zhui pian, p. 1279.
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Ibid., p. 296.
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Ibid., p. 50.
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Jiuwen sipian, p. 7.
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Guan zhui pian, p. 110.
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“Qian Zhongshu tan bijiao wenxue he ‘wenxue bijiao’” , Dushu, Issue 10, 1981.
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Jiuwen sipian , p. 3.
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Guan zhui pian, p. 1215.
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See the work on literary theory by the Japanese scholar Kuriyagawa Hakuson (1880–1923).
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Yue, D. (2016). A New Beginning for China’s Comparative Literature: Qian Zhongshu’s Limited Views—The Establishment of the Chinese Comparative Literature Association. In: China and the West at the Crossroads. China Academic Library. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1116-0_3
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