The Problems of Sinologism and Strategies to Cope with Them

Editors’ Abstract Situating the controversy over Sinologism within the larger context of geopolitical and economic rebalance of power in the globalized world, this article seeks to provide a few strategies to tackle the problems arising from the problematic production of China knowledge and to rethink the approaches to cross-cultural research and knowledge production. By highlighting the need for self-conscious reflections on epistemology and methodology in China studies, it calls on scholars to treat Sinologism as both a local and global concept so as to go beyond the local horizon of Sinological studies and enter a global horizon of cross-cultural studies.