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Item Open Access A (Meta)commentary on Western Literary Theories in China: The Case of Jameson and Chinese Jamesonism(Modern Language Quarterly, 2018-09-01) Kang, LiuItem Open Access China's Rise through World Public Opinion: Editorial Introduction(Journal of Contemporary China, 2015-03-04) Kang, Liu; Chu, Yun-HanItem Open Access Chinese Exceptionalism(2024-03-04) Kang, LiuItem Open Access "Dinner Party of Discourse Owners"(The Minnesota Review, 2012) Kang, LiuItem Open Access Interests, Values, and Geopolitics: The Global Public Opinion on China(European Review, 2015-05) Kang, LiuThe essay discusses the public opinion surveys on the rise of China in the United States, Asia and Latin America since 2010, conducted by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Duke University’s collaborative research team headed by the author. It examines the world public recognition of China’s growing influence, their attitudes toward China’s influence, and reactions to the ‘China Model’ and impressions of China’s political, economic, social, and cultural development. These assessments of China’s domestic issues or internal behavior show not only the amount of information and knowledge that the people in various countries know about China, but the intrinsic value judgments and ideological biases that influence their perceptions of China. The essay argues that the rise of China is a complicated phenomenon with a multifarious nature, including material dimensions, such as military power, economic development, and technological innovation, as well as ideational dimensions, such as perception, understanding, or prejudice. Public opinion, attitudes and perceptions of China’s rise are the outcome of dynamic interactions and assemblage of factors, a synergy of material interests, ideational and emotional reactions, and values, ideologies, principles, unraveling themselves against a highly volatile, precarious and contentious geopolitical backdrop, in which the interests of nation-states and individuals became all intertwined and inseparable.Item Open Access Social Sciences, Humanities and Liberal Arts: China and the West(European Review, 2018-05) Kang, LiuFor the most part, modern China’s institutions and modes of knowledge have been shaped and predominantly influenced by the West. Since the modern Chinese knowledge system is an integral and inseparable part of that dominant western system, an immanent critique will view Chinese problems not as extraneous, but as intrinsic to modernity, to the world-system or globalization. This article traces the genealogy of modern European modes of knowledge under the rubrics of ‘liberal arts’, as the origin and basis for modern China’s institutions and modes of knowledge, and then examines China’s ‘liberal arts’ as institution and modes of knowledge from the early years of the twentieth century to the present. The paper’s objective is to question the relationship between (Eurocentric) universalism and Chinese exceptionalism within the dominant modern Western institutions and modes of knowledge today.