Chinese Literary Tradition in the Perspective of "the Other":A Study on Stephen Owen's Anthology of Chinese Literature,Beginnings To 1911

The outstanding American Sinologist Stephen Owen has translated and edited Norton's An Anthology of Chinese Literature,Beginnings To 1911.By establishing a family of texts with inter-textual arrangement,Owen tries to represent continuity and variety of long Chinese literary tradition.Besides,the anthology is a useful reference for rewriting Chinese literary history.However,as a typical Sinologist trained in Western academic system,Owen has his own limitations in anthologizing such works because this anthology does not reveal a truthful picture of Chinese literary tradition.It is necessary for Chinese scholars to have some responses and reflections on this anthology for a better understanding of literary imagination and cultural application by Western Sinologists as the other in order to promote equal cultural communication in world.