"Circular Movement"or"Linear Transcendence":A Brief Study of Chinese and Western"Travel-Pilgrimage Narrative"and Discussion with Professor David Lyle Jeffrey
"Circular Movement"or"Linear Transcendence":A Brief Study of Chinese and Western"Travel-Pilgrimage Narrative"and Discussion with Professor David Lyle Jeffrey
Taking the Journey to the West as an example,David Lyle Jeffrey summarizes the"travel-pilgrimage narrative"in ancient China as a"circular movement".By contrast,the characteristic form of the Aeneid and The City of God could be termed"linear transcendence",as Jeffrey analyzes.Further,such"linear transcendence"evolved into the tension of the"Roman empire mode"and"Christian mode"in the colonial history and religious expansion of the West.By review of Lu Xun's"A Refutation of the Voices of Evil",however,his"circular movement"of general reverence of all things and return to origin not only directly negates the linear project of saving China with Christianity at that time and the exclusivity and transcendence in the Christian doctrine,but also provides a pre-religious and pre-secular possibility for the learnings and beliefs in the world today.
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