This book is a study of knowledge production about China and the Chinese civilization and as such it is a critique of the ways in which knowledge about the Chinese civilization is produced. It is not primarily intended as one that sets out to expose biases and prejudices against China, correct errors and misrepresentations of Chinese civilization, and dispute misperceptions and misinterpretations of Chinese materials, although all these issues do occur in the book. The overall objective is to get behind and beneath all these problems in order to uncover the motivations, mental frameworks, attitudes, and reasons for the abovementioned phenomena, which the author terms "Sinologism".

Ming Dong Gu is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Dallas, USA.

Introduction: Orientalism and Beyond 1. Knowledge and Cultural Unconscious 2. Sinology, Sinologism, Postcolonialism 3. Sinologism: A Historical Critique 4. The Ideology of Epistemology 5. The Ideology of Methodology 6. The Ethnic Unconscious 7. The Political Unconscious 8. Linguistic Sinologism 9. Conclusion: A Theory of Self-Conscious Reflection