Ming Xie is Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Toronto, Canada.

"Conditions of Comparison offers a meticulous genealogy and timely recapitulation of key critical concepts, reading protocols, and analytical instruments that constitute the discipline of comparative literature and culture. Ming Xie ably demonstrates the potential of this disciplinary formation for what he terms comparative intercultural inquiry as interpretive practice and ethical intervention among diverse cultures, their historical imbrications, and contrapuntal engagements. An exemplary study that illustrates the self-reflexive practices whose history it eloquently narrates."- Djelal Kadir, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Comparative Literature, Penn State University, USA and author of Memos from the Besieged City: Lifelines for Cultural Sustainability (Stanford University Press, 2010)

• Introduction; Chapter 1: Multiple Definition; Chapter 2: From Comparison to Comparativity; Chapter 3: Hermeneutic Distanciation; Chapter 4: From Episteme to Paradigm and Back; Chapter 5: Splitting the Difference; Chapter 6: The Relativity of Relativisms; Chapter 7: Universalisms East and West; Chapter 8: Occidentalizing Modernity; Epilogue.

Ming Xie is Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Toronto, Canada.

"Conditions of Comparison offers a meticulous genealogy and timely recapitulation of key critical concepts, reading protocols, and analytical instruments that constitute the discipline of comparative literature and culture. Ming Xie ably demonstrates the potential of this disciplinary formation for what he terms comparative intercultural inquiry as interpretive practice and ethical intervention among diverse cultures, their historical imbrications, and contrapuntal engagements. An exemplary study that illustrates the self-reflexive practices whose history it eloquently narrates."- Djelal Kadir, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Comparative Literature, Penn State University, USA and author of Memos from the Besieged City: Lifelines for Cultural Sustainability (Stanford University Press, 2010)

• Introduction; Chapter 1: Multiple Definition; Chapter 2: From Comparison to Comparativity; Chapter 3: Hermeneutic Distanciation; Chapter 4: From Episteme to Paradigm and Back; Chapter 5: Splitting the Difference; Chapter 6: The Relativity of Relativisms; Chapter 7: Universalisms East and West; Chapter 8: Occidentalizing Modernity; Epilogue.

Ming Xie is Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Toronto, Canada.

"Conditions of Comparison offers a meticulous genealogy and timely recapitulation of key critical concepts, reading protocols, and analytical instruments that constitute the discipline of comparative literature and culture. Ming Xie ably demonstrates the potential of this disciplinary formation for what he terms comparative intercultural inquiry as interpretive practice and ethical intervention among diverse cultures, their historical imbrications, and contrapuntal engagements. An exemplary study that illustrates the self-reflexive practices whose history it eloquently narrates."- Djelal Kadir, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Comparative Literature, Penn State University, USA and author of Memos from the Besieged City: Lifelines for Cultural Sustainability (Stanford University Press, 2010)

• Introduction; Chapter 1: Multiple Definition; Chapter 2: From Comparison to Comparativity; Chapter 3: Hermeneutic Distanciation; Chapter 4: From Episteme to Paradigm and Back; Chapter 5: Splitting the Difference; Chapter 6: The Relativity of Relativisms; Chapter 7: Universalisms East and West; Chapter 8: Occidentalizing Modernity; Epilogue.