Digital Issue of the College of Transcultural Studies

The Initial Issue:NO.1

Issued:Oct.1,2017

Program:Key project of “ Research for Language,Character of Chinese and Folk Culture from the Perspective of Transcultural Studies”, hosted by the Center of Folklore, Ancient Writing and Chinese Characters, Key Social Science Research Base under the Ministry of Education of P.R.China
Transcultural studies as a construction of discipline
Jin Siyan (Professor of Artois University,France )

We are entering a century of looking for spiritual peace as people have done many times in the human history. No matter we are willing or not, conscious or unconscious, science is approaching limitlessness in way of discriminating subtly. It is a metaphysics that human returns to spirituality with endless imagination and in awe. A prominent question that has been discussing in the international academia is the definition and methodology of a new “discipline” – the transcultural studies. What this “discipline” concerns most is transculture between literature and humanity, but not the parallel positions between culture and anthropology in the traditional sense, nor the cultural issues each nation cares about respectively. It includes exaggeration in the cultural acceptance, identity and variation, and the like. As for the construction of discipline, we need to discuss the following issues: 1.theoretical construction, 2.transcultural resources, 3.transcultural experiences, 4.methodology. (Source: Dialogue Transculturel,Vol.4,2008)