Literature and Anthropology: Discursive Connections between China and France in the First Half of the 20th Century

About This Novel

This book takes literature and anthropology as its perspective, starting from big literature and overall anthropology, and analyzing the history of the discourse relationship between China and France in the first half of the 20th century through the dual texts of historical documents and events, in order to present the ideological exchanges and personnel exchanges between China and France around major discourses during this period. The author has chosen two groups of discourses with different tendencies, namely those that are biased towards conceptual history and those that are biased towards academic history. The former includes two concepts: "science" and "positivity", and "group studies" and "country"; the latter includes four academic fields: "society", "nation", "songs" and "folklore". From a French perspective, this book selects four scholars in turn: Comte, Durkheim, Mauss and Granyan. They were either the pioneers of the French Annals School or the leaders of three generations of scholars of the school, and they profoundly influenced French social science research from the end of the 19th century to the first half of the 20th century. In Chinese practice, the cases selected in this book include Cai Yuanpei, Liu Bannong, the group of Chinese students studying in France in the 1920s, Mauss's Chinese students (represented by Ling Chunsheng and Yang Chengzhi), and Yang Kun, etc. They have all established indirect or direct discourse connections with the above-mentioned French scholars.

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