Shaobo Xie is professor of English at the University of Calgary. He teaches literary theory, postcolonial literature and theory, and translation studies. His articles have appeared in journals such as Boundary 2, New Literary History, Cultural Critique, Telos, Neohelicon, Semiotica, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, Science & Society, Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies, Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, and International Social Science Journal. Among his recent publications are “Translation and Globalization,”“Green Religion as a Way of Life: Thoreau and his Ecocentric Aesthetics of Existence,” “Chinese Beginnings of Cosmopolitanism: A Genealogical Critique of Tianxia Guan,” and “Tao, Parrhēsia and the Chinese Intellectual.”
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