Abstract

This essay proposes “jian-rhetorical seeing”—an art of invention—to foster genuine dialogs about human rights in transnational spaces and to challenge asymmetric distributions of power that so often course through these spaces. Building on and extending recent scholarship on human rights rhetoric and comparative rhetoric, the essay reinterprets an ancient Chinese concept, jian 鉴, as reflective/reflexive “rhetorical seeing” and brings it into dialog with Confucian ethics and rhetorical theories of recognition. Through an analysis of the Chinese translations and interpretations of rights in a few distilled historical moments during the Late Qing period (1840–1912), the authors demonstrate jian-rhetorical seeing and illuminate the implications of this rhetorical art for human rights debates in today’s global context.

Journal
Rhetoric Society Quarterly
Published
2023-08-08
DOI
10.1080/02773945.2022.2146169
CompPile
Search in CompPile ↗
Open Access
Closed
Topics
Export

Citation Context

Cited by in this index (1)

  1. Rhetoric Society Quarterly

References (75) · 13 in this index

  1. Advances in the History of Rhetoric
  2. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
  3. 10.1017/CBO9780511499227
  4. Rhetoric Society Quarterly
  5. 10.1525/9780520341715
Show all 75 →
  1. 10.1525/9780520340664
  2. 10.1515/9781400820030
  3. The Earliest Phase of the Introduction of Western Political Science into China
    Yenching Journal of Social Studies
  4. Zhuangzi [Zhuangzi with Annotations and Interpretations]
  5. Confucianism and Human Rights
  6. Building a Just World Order
  7. de Zayas Alfred. “International Order No Longer Exclusive Domain of the West.” Interview by Aixin Li. Global …
  8. Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, and the New International
  9. 10.2307/j.ctt1d9nnx6
  10. Networking the Macro and Micro: Toward Transnational Literacy Practices
    JAC
  11. Black Skin, White Masks
  12. Redistribution or Recognition?—A Political-Philosophical Exchange
  13. Migrant Crossings: Witnessing Human Trafficking in the U.S.
  14. 10.1080/00335639309384017
  15. Local Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology
  16. 10.4000/extremeorient.252
  17. Xinzheng Zhenquan [A True Interpretation of the New Politics]
  18. Rhetoric Society Quarterly
  19. Spectacular Rhetorics: Human Rights Visions, Recognitions, Feminism
  20. Just Advocacy? Women’s Human Rights, Transnational Feminisms, and the Politics of Represe…
  21. Inventing Human Rights: A History
  22. Xunzi—The Complete Text
  23. The Struggle for Law
  24. Aristotle and Confucius on Rhetoric and Truth: The Form and the Way
  25. Shijing xuan
  26. Jindai zhongguo nüquan yundong shiliao 1842-1911 [Historical Documents of Women’s Rights …
  27. Xinmin Shuo [On the New People]
  28. 10.1215/9780822381129-005
  29. Liu Shipei guoxue jianglun [Liu Shipei’s Lectures on Traditional Chinese Culture]
  30. Rhetoric before and beyond the Greeks
  31. Adversaries and Authorities: Investigations into Ancient Greek and Chinese Science
  32. Rhetoric Society Quarterly
  33. Xunzi Xinzhu [Xunzi with New Annotations]
  34. Zhongguo wenhua de genben jingshen [The Fundamental Spirit of Chinese Culture]
  35. Rhetoric in Ancient China, Fifth to Third Century BCE: A Comparison with Classical Greek …
  36. Deliberative Acts: Democracy, Rhetoric, and Rights
  37. College English
  38. Rhetoric Society Quarterly
  39. Reflective Encounters: Illustrating Comparative Rhetoric
    Style
  40. College English
  41. Savages, Victims, and Saviors: The Metaphor of Human Rights
    Harvard International Law Journal
  42. Rhetoric Society Quarterly
  43. Lunyu [The Analects with Annotations and Interpretations]
  44. Mencius on the Mind: Experiments in Multiple Definition
  45. Rhetoric Society Quarterly
  46. Transnational Environmental Justice Rhetorics and the Green Belt Movement: Wangari Muta M…
    JAC
  47. 10.1632/pmla.2006.121.5.1405
  48. 10.1215/00382876-103-2-3-523
  49. Rhetoric before and beyond the Greeks
  50. Global Space and the Nationalist Discourse of Modernity: The Historical Thinking of Liang…
  51. 10.2307/j.ctt7snkj.6
  52. China’s Response to the West: A Documentary Survey, 1839–1923
  53. Rhetoric Society Quarterly
  54. Confucian Thought: Selfhood as Creative Transformation
  55. United Nations. “The Foundation of International Human Rights Law.” https://www.un.org/en/about-us/udhr/found…
  56. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
    United Nations Bulletin
  57. The Book of Songs: The Ancient Chinese Classic of Poetry
  58. Rhetoric Society Quarterly
  59. Yan Tie Lun Jiaozhu [Discourses on Salt and Iron with Annotations]
  60. Lin Zexu Fanyi Xifang Guojifa Zhuzuo Kaolue [On Lin Zexu’s Translation of Works on Wester…
    Zhongshan daxue xuebao
  61. Rhetoric Society Quarterly
  62. The Complete Works of Zhuangzi
  63. Haiguo Tuzhi [Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Countries]
  64. Calling Cards: Theory and Practice in the Study of Race, Gender, and Culture
  65. Zhongguo minquan zhexue [The Philosophy of Civil Rights in the Context of China]
  66. Yan Fu wenji [Selected Works of Yan Fu]
  67. Mengzi yizhu [Mengzi with Translations and Annotations]
    Zhonghua shuju
  68. Rhetoric Society Quarterly
  69. Justice and the Politics of Difference
  70. Xian Qin rujia zhengzhi zhexue yinlun [Introduction to Pre-Qin Confucian Political Philosophy]
    Beijing daxue chubanshe