How can we see another culture as rhetorically important when we disregard the whole cultures validity as an equal? Maybe soon as a western culture we can start to acknowledge Chinese Rhetoric as an equally valid discourse. Our past concerns…
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Commentary 5
by Alex Janney • • 0 Comments
There are so many things in life that people say a person should “take with a grain of salt;” I can’t help but wonder if translation is something I should add to my list along with the fashion ideas my…
Distinctions are What We Make Them: West v. East
by MaryAnn Macedo • • 0 Comments
The readings about Chinese rhetoric struck me as just that– readings about how others read Chinese rhetoric, rather than a way to get to the source of something and really understand it by myself. Moreover, because I would never understand…
Week 6: Everything in Moderation
by kmontero • • 0 Comments
The two excerpts from Xing Lu’s text “Rhetoric in Ancient China” featured attempts to open Western eyes to the Rhetoric of Ancient China through a comparison with Classical Greek Rhetoric. Although only provided part 1 and 2, the reading centered…
Flowery Chinese Rhetoric and My Brother’s Mother-in-Law
by Joel • • 0 Comments
It doesn’t surprise me that the Western culture has all but diminished not only Chinese rhetoric, but Indian as well, as either meaningless or non-existent. For the past two weeks we have read about all of the false accusations about…
Yameng Liu and Carolyn Matalene: Culture Clash or Culture Bash
by Anne Engert • • 1 Comment
I first encountered the idea that other cultures might have a radically different way of constructing arguments when I was a tutor in the writing center at a community college. In that school, we had many ESL students, quite a…
Happy word, flawless sentences, clear paragraph… brilliant literary piece
by Shirley Miranda • • 0 Comments
Xing Lu takes us to an exquisite journey of the raw origins of Chinese rhetoric and the misperception of it in the Western world. Although it was very interesting and informative to learn about the different schools of thoughts that…
xing lu
by jocias • • 0 Comments
Lu’s work, “Rhetoric in Ancient China” dispels several myths about Chinese rhetoric from a Western view. The first and perhaps most startlingly misunderstanding is the notion that Chinese rhetoric does not discuss logical arguments. On this common misperception Lu writes,…
Virtues of Philosophers
by uzma • • 0 Comments
I think we cannot separate philosophy from style and delivery, unless someone has some philosophy working at the back of his thoughts than it can be shaped into style and rhetoric. As far as the argument of good man is…
Puzzles of philosophers
by uzma • • 0 Comments
I am dazzled after reading Sutra and Rushd and wordless to express my thoughts. The readings appear to be just an argument for the sake of an argument. One thing can never be denied that every effect has its cause,…