An Overview of Intermedial Studies in China

This chapter makes an overview of the contemporary interart/intermedial studies in China and unfolds six stories: (1) Criticism of sister arts in the twentieth century, (2) interart/intermedial studies in comparative literature, (3) poetics of ekphrasis, (4) intermedial studies in arts, (5) text-image studies, and (6) cross-media and transmedia narrative. As English publications by Chinese scholars on intermedial studies are far from sufficient, the chapter can serve as a window for international readers to have a glance of China’s intermedial studies.