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ABSTRACT
In an attempt to destabilize the stereotypical French imaginary of China, François Cheng intends to offer in Le Dit de Tianyi a more compelling “witness” to the Chinese individual in historical circumstances. Casting his characters in the light of a ternaristic ontology that incorporates Daoist mysticism and Confucian humanism, Cheng hopes to reestablish the agency of the Chinese subject, an individual who eventually is able to transcend the tragic conditions of the Chinese revolution and regain the purpose of human existence.
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Feng Lan
Feng Lan is an Associate Professor of Chinese at Florida State University. He is the author of Ezra Pound and Confucianism: Remaking Humanism in the Face of Modernity (U of Toronto P, 2005), and has published many articles in English and Chinese on topics in comparative literature. He is now completing a monograph that examines Chinese diasporic representations of the home nation in the twentieth century.