Hua Zhu

3 articles
  1. Thinking in and through Comparative Rhetoric and Decolonial Studies
    doi:10.1080/02773945.2025.2473909
  2. <i>Genre Networks and Empire: Rhetoric in Early Imperial China</i> Xiaoye You. <b> <i>Genre Networks and Empire: Rhetoric in Early Imperial China</i> </b> . Southern IllinoisUP, 2023. 232 pages. $40 paperback.
    doi:10.1080/07350198.2023.2286133
  3. Interconnectivity and Power Subversion: Enacting the Rhetoric of According-With
    Abstract

    In comparative rhetoric, interconnectivity emerges as a frame to conceptualize power struggle, one that specifically counters othering and the underlying essentialist and colonial logics. Interconnectivity stands for a third space where difference and connection coexist and where interdependence characterizes the relationship among interlocutors. This essay addresses how to forge interconnectivity and argues for the rhetoric of according-with. According-with refers to a threefold act, namely, to navigate, use, and refigure established and emergent discursive circumstances. In re/contextualizing practices of according-with in China’s pre-Qin period and various other places and time, I specify resourcefulness and situatedness as two epistemes exercised by according-with. The rhetoric of according-with, then, nuances the particular doing-thinking-be(com)ing that disenfranchised people enact to reshape power differentials. The rhetoric of according-with functions as a critical apparatus to cultivate interconnectivity as one pathway toward subverting power.

    doi:10.1080/02773945.2022.2146171