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Lu, Xing. “Studies and Development of Comparative Rhetoric in the U.S. A.: Chinese and Western Rhetoric in Focus”
In this article, Xing Lu describes the evolution of comparative rhetoric in rhetorical studies between Chinese rhetoric and Western rhetoric as has having occurred in four stages: deficiency stage, recognition/emergence stage, the native/emic stage, and the appreciation/appropriation stage. According to … Continue reading
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Wang, Bo. “A Survey of Research in Asian Rhetoric”
In order to survey the existing state of research in Asian rhetorics, in this article, Bo Wang interviews top scholars in Asian rhetorics, who have recently begun to study Asian rhetorics on their own terms and in their own … Continue reading
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Rhetoric Before and Beyond the Greeks Eds. Carol S. Lipson and Roberta A. Binkley
With the call in Octolog II to look for rhetoric in cultural locations unpreviously examined, Rhetoric Before and Beyond the Greeks attempts to explore rhetoric before and beyond the limited scope of Athenian rhetoric in ways that do not reify … Continue reading
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Combs, Steven C. The Dao of Rhetoric
In the introduction to The Dao of Rhetoric, Combs advocates for a study of ancient Chinese rhetorics in their own cultural texts and contexts as a means to challenge Eurocentric assumptions about communication, culture, and rhetoric (2). Daoism, Combs claims, … Continue reading
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Mao, LuMing “Reflective Encounters: Illustrating Comparative Rhetoric”
Mao’s Reflective Encounter’s begins with three challenges that comparative rhetoric as defined by Kennedy faces: temptation of resorting to the defiency mode, identifying “rhetorical universals” across cultures and imposing principles from Western classical rhetoric onto other cultural rhetorical practices. Mao … Continue reading
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“Studying the Chinese Rhetorical Tradition in the Present: Re-presentiing the Native’s Point of View” by LuMing Mao
In this important article, Mao insists that those scholars studying cultural rhetorics must reflect on the methodologies we employ in studying the rhetorical practices of the Other and deepen our understanding of how these methodologies connect to our objects of … Continue reading
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Culture in Ancient India and china by Robert Oliver—Chapter 1: Culture and Rhetoric
In Chapter 1 of Communication and Culture in Ancient India and china, Robert Oliver attempts to explain the manner in which these cultures talked–”how they addressed one another, under what circumstances, on what topics, in what varied styles, with what … Continue reading
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