What is it about?
This essay offers a critique of the dichotomy of cultures and argues for the possibility and validity of cross-cultural understanding. It also proposes world literature as an opportunity to embrace cross-cultural translatability as the first step towards a new paradigm in the study of different cultures in our world today.
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Why is it important?
Just look at the many conflicts and regional wars in our world today, we may have a sense of how cross-cultural understanding is crucial for a peaceful world.
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I always enjoy doing research in understanding different cultures beyond whatever difference that separates them, and this is one of the many essays I have written in that areas.
Professor Longxi Zhang
City University of Hong Kong
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This page is a summary of: Cross-cultural Translatability: Challenges and Prospects, European Review, June 2015, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s1062798715000150.
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