Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Major Chinese Dynasties -- Prologue -- Part I: Macrocosmic Structures of Western and Chinese Poetics -- 1. The Orientation of Western Poetics: Conceptualizing Literature as Truth, Untruth, or Antitruth -- 2. The Orientation of Chinese Poetics: Conceptualizing Literature as a Harmonizing Process -- 3. Early Chinese Worldviews and Concepts of Literature -- 4. The Systematics of Western and Chinese Poetics: Common Denominators, Differentiae, and Cosmological Paradigms -- Part II: Microcosmic Textures of Western and Chinese Poetics -- 5. Poetics of Harmony: Plato and Confucius on Poetry -- 6. Poetics of Imagination: Wordsworth and Liu Xie on Literary Creation -- 7. Poetics of Dynamic Force: Fenollosa, Pound, and Chinese Critics on the Chinese Written Character -- 8. Poetics of Deconstruction: Derrida and Madhyamika Buddhists on Language and Ontotheologies -- Epilogue. Reflections: Intracultural, Cross-cultural, and Transcultural Perspectives on Western and Chinese Literary Criticism -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Author.