The Comparison Between James JY Liu And Ye Jiaying In The Perspective Of Chinese And Western Comparative Poetics

Chinese-American scholar James JY Liu, and Chinese Canadian scholars Ye Jiaying, they twohave made great contribution to the aspects of poetry writing and Chinese and Western comparative poetics.With open attitudes and new visions, both of them have made a profound exploration and interpretation ofthe different Chinese and Western comparative poetics; with the Western literary theory as a frame ofreference, both seek out to find the Chinese literary theory and Western literary theory dialogue points, soas to contribute to the universalization of traditional Chinese literary theory toward the world,.With the long term living in the West, James JY Liu has experienced the fierce conflict ofChinese and Western identity, after that, he realized that the cultures around the world are connected, so inthe process of introducing traditional Chinese literary theory to Western readers, he paid more attention onthe analysis and interpretation on traditional Chinese literary theory. In this process, we could be deeplyimpressed by James JY Liu’s preference in the West, though most of his books are about Chinese literature,he usually borrow and apply for the Western literary theory, in which reason is to make the plain westernstudents and readers who have limit knowledge on Chinese culture have a better understanding, moreoverto spread traditional Chinese culture to the world. On this basis, James JY Liu hopes to make it become aworldwide literary theory, which deeply rooted in the Chinese tradition and could compare with othertraditional theories. In contrast with James JY Liu, Ye Jiaying, who had nurtured with Chinese traditionalculture and later lived the West for more than ten years, show much favor and deeply attached to traditionalChinese traditional culture, facing the thirst young readers who have extremely eager to learn new theoryfrom the West and do not know the traditional Chinese culture very much, Ye Jiaying also began to establish a theory which has integrated both Chinese and Western culture, in this process, she waspleasantly surprised to find that some parts of the Western critical theory have considerable similaritieswith traditional Chinese culture, so she begins to rebuild Chinese literary theory with speculative analysisand description through borrowing Western theories. In this way, Ye Jiaying began to explore a new course,but she has never forgotten the importance of " the life of revitalizing and moving" theory from Chinesepoetry, her exploration of the Western Literary mainly centered on the "aesthetic qualities" of the Chinesepoetry and the traditional poetics and poems, so as to find an appropriate location for the traditionalChinese poetry on modern world culture coordinates. This is the biggest difference of what two scholarsengaged in Chinese and Western Poetics.