3. The Discourse of Individualism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents xv
3. Preface xvii
4. I 0 Introduction: The Problem of Language in Cross-Cultural Studies 1
5. PART 1 Between the Nation and the Individual
6. 2. Translating National Character: Lu Xun and Arthur Smith 45
7. 3. The Discourse of Individualism 77
8. PART II Translingual Modes of Representation
9. 4. Homo Economicus and the Question of Novelistic Realism 103
10. 5. Narratives of Desire: Negotiating the Real and the Fantastic 128
11. 6. The Deixis of Writing in the First Person 150
12. PART III Nation Building and Culture Building
13. 7. Literary Criticism as a Discourse of Legitimation 183
14. 8. The Making of the Compendium of Modem Chinese Literature 214
15. 9. Rethinking Culture and National Essence 239
16. Appendixes
17. A. Neologisms Derived from Missionary-Chinese Texts and Their Routes of Diffusion 265
18. B. Sino-Japanese-European Loanwords in Modern Chinese 284
19. c. Sino-Japanese Loanwords in Modern Chinese 299
20. D. Return Graphic Loans: Kanji Terms Derived from Classical Chinese 302
21. E. A Sampling of Suffixed and Prefixed Compounds from ModernJapanese 343
22. F. Transliterations from English, French, and German 353
23. G. Transliterations from Russian 375
24. Notes 381
25. Selected Bibliography 433
26. Character List 459
27. Index 467