“Harmony, Homogeneity” and Literary Research

Abstract

The question I would like to discuss is: in the context of the current major trend toward economic globalization, the standardization of science and technology, and the globalization of media and broadcasting, can the diversity and richness of human culture which has been created over the past several millennia survive and develop? Can the diverse cultural ecology be protected and preserved? Facing this momentous question which confronts all of humanity, what is the significance of the literary research or comparative literary research that we are engaged in? What can it offer? At every twist and turn of history, people usually look back at the origins of their own culture and search for a new path.