Ming Xie is Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is the author of Ezra Pound and the Appropriation of Chinese Poetry (1999).

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.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: Multiple DefinitionChapter 2: From Comparison to ComparativityChapter 3: Hermeneutic DistanciationChapter 4: From Episteme to Paradigm and BackChapter 5: Splitting the DifferenceChapter 6: The Relativity of RelativismsChapter 7: Universalisms East and WestChapter 8: Occidentalizing ModernityEpilogueWorks CitedNotes

Ming Xie is Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is the author of Ezra Pound and the Appropriation of Chinese Poetry (1999).

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.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: Multiple DefinitionChapter 2: From Comparison to ComparativityChapter 3: Hermeneutic DistanciationChapter 4: From Episteme to Paradigm and BackChapter 5: Splitting the DifferenceChapter 6: The Relativity of RelativismsChapter 7: Universalisms East and WestChapter 8: Occidentalizing ModernityEpilogueWorks CitedNotes

Ming Xie is Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is the author of Ezra Pound and the Appropriation of Chinese Poetry (1999).

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.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: Multiple DefinitionChapter 2: From Comparison to ComparativityChapter 3: Hermeneutic DistanciationChapter 4: From Episteme to Paradigm and BackChapter 5: Splitting the DifferenceChapter 6: The Relativity of RelativismsChapter 7: Universalisms East and WestChapter 8: Occidentalizing ModernityEpilogueWorks CitedNotes