Publication Type
Book Review
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
7-2015
Abstract
At the end of the book, Gu defines Sinologism as an undeclared but tacitly administered institutionalization of the ways of observing China from the perspective of Western epistemology that refuses, or is reluctant, to view China on its own terms, and of doing scholarship on Chinese materials and producing knowledge on Chinese civilization in terms of Western methodology that tends to disregard the real conditions of China and reduce the complexity of Chinese civilization into simplistic patterns of development modelled on those of the West. While comparative philosophers can sympathize with the idea that in the humanities and to a large extent in the social sciences such bias is indeed prevalent, in my opinion it is hard to argue that scientific standards as such are biased just because they originated in the West.
Discipline
Philosophy
Research Areas
Humanities
Publication
Philosophy East and West
Volume
65
Issue
3
First Page
997
Last Page
999
ISSN
0031-8221
ISBN
9781138851825
Identifier
10.1353/pew.2015.0075
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Citation
BURIK, Steven.(2015). Sinologism: An Alternative to Orientalism and Postcolonialism. Philosophy East and West, 65(3), 997-999.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2011
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Publisher
Creative Commons License
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1353/pew.2015.0075