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World Literature as Discovery argues that world literature for our time must go beyond Eurocentrism and expand the canon to include great works from non-European and "minor" European literatures. Zhang Longxi proposes a new and liberating concept of world literature that will shape world literature worthy of its name.

World Literature as Discovery argues that world literature for our time must go beyond Eurocentrism and expand the canon to include great works from non-European and "minor" European literatures. Zhang Longxi proposes a new and liberating concept of world literature that will shape world literature worthy of its name.

Zhang Longxi, an internationally-renowned scholar of comparative literature is your guide through the three millennia-long history of Chinese literature from the mythical age of oracle bones to the present day.

Zhang Longxi, an internationally-renowned scholar of comparative literature is your guide through the three millennia-long history of Chinese literature from the mythical age of oracle bones to the present day.

Zhang's work admirably succeeds through a judicious selection and exploration of Chinese and Western literary texts in exploding the fallacy that China and the West are not culturally comparable. Unexpected Affinities should become a touchstone of cross-cultural understanding and communication for decades to come.'-Richard John Lynn