Title
The persistence of "Cathay" in world literature
Document Type
Journal article
Source Publication
CLCWeb - Comparative Literature and Culture
Publication Date
12-1-2013
Volume
15
Issue
5
Article Number
16
Publisher
Purdue University Press
Abstract
In his article "The Persistence of 'Cathay' in World Literature" Eugene Eoyang argues that China has only recently begun to occupy a place in world literatures as evidenced by the absence of Chinese literature from the early editions of the widely adopted Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces and its token representations in subsequent editions. "Orientalized" images of China still persist partly stemming from the continuing currency of stereotyped images of the Chinese promoted by publishers, by Western Sinologists, and even by expatriate Chinese. A cottage industry has developed which privileges the study of images of China (however distorted and oversimplified) over the often more intractable and less exotic complexities of Chinese literature and Chinese reality.
DOI
10.7771/1481-4374.2349
Print ISSN
14814374
E-ISSN
14814374
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Full-text Version
Publisher’s Version
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Eoyang, E. (2013). The persistence of "Cathay" in world literature. CLC Web: Comparative Literature and Culture, 15(5), art. no. 16. doi: 10.7771/1481-4374.2349
