Cosmopolitanism and China:
Toward a Literary (Re)Construction

Edited by Ning Wang

Introduction
Ning Wang

Chinese Beginnings of Cosmopolitanism: A Genealogical Critique of Tianxia Guan
Shaobo Xie

Cosmopolitanism, Tianxia, and Walter Benjamin’s “The Task of the Translator”
David Pan

Cosmopolitan Translation and Cross-Cultural Paradigms: A Chinese Perspective
Yifeng Sun

“At Home in the World”: Hong Kong as a Cosmopolitan City in Xu Xi’s The Unwalled City
Melody Yunzi Li

From Shanghai Modern to Shanghai Postmodern: A Cosmopolitan View of China’s Modernization
Ning Wang

Cosmopolitanism and Alternative Modernity in Twentieth-Century China
Sheldon Lu

Between Localism and Cosmopolitanism: A Look at Zhou Zuoren’s Early Construction of the Individual
Lisa Chu Shen

Cosmopolitanism in Ordeal: Cultural Reveries and Political Anxieties in Xu Xu’s “Modern Tales of the Strange”
Xiaoping Wang

The Good of Liberalism: Weak Messianism
Aryeh Botwinick

Kant and the Production of the “Island of Truth”: The Event of Modernity
Eduardo Sabrovsky

Notes and Commentary

Hermeneutic Communism as (Weak) Political Phenomenology
Michael Marder