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1 Introduction: What Is World Literature? 2 Comparative Literature and World Literature: From Goethe to Globalization3 The Location of World Literature4 Frames for World Literature5 World Literature and the Encounter with the Other: A Means or a Menace?6 Some Remarks on the Concept of World Literature After 20007 World Literature, Canon, and Literary Criticism8 Four Perspectives on World Literature: Reader, Producer, Text and System9 A World of Translation10 World Literature in Graphic Novels and Graphic Novels as World Literature11 Experiments in Cultural Connectivity: Early Twentieth-Century German-Jewish Thought Meets the Daodejing12 Ideographic Myth and Misconceptions about Chinese Poetic Art13 Chinese Literature as Part of World Literature14 How to Become World Literature: Chinese Literature’s Aspiration and Way to “Step into the World”15 World Literature from and in ChinaDialogue Section A: World Literature and Nation BuildingDialogue Section B: The Interactions between the Local and the Universal: A Few Thoughts after Listening to the Talk of Professor DamroschDialogue Section C: World Literature: Significance, Challenge, and FutureDialogue Section D: Who Decides the “United Nations of Great Books”: Inspired by Prof. Zhang’s SpeechDialogue Section E: Response