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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…