Intercultural methodology in sinology : transculturality, textual criticism and discursive translations

Rošker, Jana S. (author)

For Western researchers, the understanding of Chinese culture is conditioned by differences in language, tradition, history and socialization. The interpretation of various aspects and elements of different cultures is always connected to the geographic, political and economic positions of the interpreter as well as the object of interpretation. In Western research on China, the non-reflected use of theoretical analyses that are in themselves results of specific (Western) historical processes and the related structure of societies, often proves to be a dangerous and misleading mechanism. A fundamental premise of the present paper is that Western epistemology represents only one of many different models of human comprehension of reality. On this basis, it questions traditional intercultural methodologies hitherto applied in Sinology and Chinese studies. The article presents the main methodological paradigms of a transculturally aware research that could improve the understanding of general principles underlying the particular research questions and objects under investigation.

• Language: English
• Keywords: intercultural research, intercultural methodology, transcultural studies, China studies, Sinology, Orientalism, transcultural philosophy, discoursive translanslations, textual criticism
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2021
• Number of pages: Str. 135-151
• Numbering: No. 3
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-135922
• UDC: 001.8:811.581(510)
• ISSN on article: 0567-8269
• DOI: 10.14712/24646830.2022.7
• COBISS.SI-ID: 102049795
• Publication date in RUL: 01.04.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Acta Universitatis Carolinae
• Shortened title: Acta Univ. Carol., Philol.
• Publisher: Univerzita Karlova
• ISSN: 0567-8269
• COBISS.SI-ID: 1920866

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.
• Licensing start date: 15.02.2022

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: medkulturne raziskave, transkulturna filozofija, diskurzivni prevodi, besedilna kritika

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Funding programme: Raziskovalni program
• Project number: P6-0243-2019
• Name: Azijski jeziki in kulture
• Acronym: AJK

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Funding programme: Temeljni raziskovalni projekt
• Project number: N6-0161
• Name: Humanizem v medkulturni perspektivi: Evropa in Kitajska
• Acronym: HUMEC