“Soulstealing”: A Chinese Scholar’s English “Soul-Summoning” in the Autonomization of Chinese

Abstract: Taking the academic practice of Wang Renqiang of Sichuan International Studies University as a case study, this article examines a Chinese scholar’s scholarly orientation in the course of the autonomization of Chinese. His theoretical tools and theoretical allegiances all come from the West; he takes English-centrism as his standpoint, packages a “quantum linguistics” assembled out of Western concepts as…