Chinese Folk Song Studies in the West:The Present State and Its Illuminations
Scholars in the West have been studying Chinese folk songs for over a hundred years,producing a wealth of scholarships throughout the period.Adopting methods and perspectives different from their Chinese counterparts,these studies have expanded the research horizons and provided new ideas for the latter.How-ever,the heterogeneity of Western and Eastern cultures also resulted in misreadings and mutations,demand-ing constant revisions and reinterpretations by Chinese scholars.In promoting cross-civilization dialogues and cross-disciplinary references,scholars in China should come to a sober understanding of Western studies of Chinese folk songs,including their advantages and shortcomings,to reflect on their own field via"the perspec-tive of the other,make efforts to study from each other,and in doing so advance the mutual recognition,valida-tion,complementation and fusion of Chinese folk song studies under Eastern and Western discursive systems.
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