Chinese Semiotic Thoughts In The Pre Imperial Age

Author : Dong Zhu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2023-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9819959853

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Chinese Semiotic Thoughts in the Pre-Imperial Age by Dong Zhu Pdf

This book examines practices on the relationship between sign and meaning in the Pre-Imperial period of China from the semiotics perspective. Although the Chinese civilization did not develop a comprehensive semiotics system in that period, they are highly semiotic in many ways. The thinking and application of signs of Chinese people can be found in many classics, such as The Book of Changes, The Analects of Confucius, Tao De Jing and Zhuangzi. This book begins its study by re-examining the semiotic thoughts contained in The Book of Changes and inquiries into the thoughts of the major philosophers of different schools. It provides insights into the findings of these philosophers concerning the relationship between sign and meaning. In particular, it concentrates on how the prosperity of the various contending semiotic thoughts complemented each other in forming a sign system. In addition, the book also emphasizes the wholeness and associativity of observing things and studying relevant signs of Chinese people. As the first monograph in any language to systematically summarize Chinese semiotic thought in the Pre-Imperial period, this book helps promote understanding of the traditional Chinese culture and mindset.

Author : Dong Zhu,Wei Ren
Publisher : De Gruyter Mouton
Page : 300 pages
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Release : 2020-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1501513311

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Chinese Semiotics in the Pre-Imperial Age by Dong Zhu,Wei Ren Pdf

The book is a systematic inquiry into how Chinese philosophers understood signs during the Pre-Imperial Age, which is better known among the Chinese as the Pre-Qin period. Described by Karl Jaspers as the Axial Age, it is the most important period in the development of Chinese philosophy. It is in this period that Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi , as well as other distinguished scholars, emerged and made their voices heard. This boom in Chinese philosophy is comparable to that in ancient Greece at the time of Plato and Aristotle. Among the Hundred Schools, Mohism and the School of Names helped to lay the foundation for the study of semiotics in ancient China. Their work has long been a rich source of thought for later scholars. Therefore, it is no exaggeration to say that to master the semiotic thought of Pre-Imperial China is to understand the roots of traditional Chinese semiotics. Methodologically, the present book tries to contextualise the historical approaches to semiotics and to understand them as part of the effort to establish order during periods of disturbance. In this way, semiotic thought can be understood in its historical and social context. This historical analysis and cultural interpretation will demonstrate that the philosophers of the Pre-Imperial Age attached great importance to signs because they believed that by reconstructing the order of signs they could restore order to society. The present book is the only one to pursue a systematic inquiry into, and analysis of, the development of semiotic thought in Pre-Imperial China and is viewed as an important step forward for the reconstruction of a Chinese traditional semiotics.

Author : Dong Zhu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789819959860

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Chinese Semiotic Thoughts in the Pre-imperial Age by Dong Zhu Pdf

This book examines practices on the relationship between sign and meaning in the Pre-Imperial period of China from the semiotics perspective. Although the Chinese civilization did not develop a comprehensive semiotics system in that period, they are highly semiotic in many ways. The thinking and application of signs of Chinese people can be found in many classics, such as The Book of Changes, The Analects of Confucius, Tao De Jing and Zhuangzi. This book begins its study by re-examining the semiotic thoughts contained in The Book of Changes and inquiries into the thoughts of the major philosophers of different schools. It provides insights into the findings of these philosophers concerning the relationship between sign and meaning. In particular, it concentrates on how the prosperity of the various contending semiotic thoughts complemented each other in forming a sign system. In addition, the book also emphasizes the wholeness and associativity of observing things and studying relevant signs of Chinese people. As the first monograph in any language to systematically summarize Chinese semiotic thought in the Pre-Imperial period, this book helps promote understanding of the traditional Chinese culture and mindset.

Author : Yiheng Zhao
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789811930577

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Philosophical Semiotics by Yiheng Zhao Pdf

This book attempts to solve the question whether semiotics is a methodology as is generally held and if the studies of meaning and the mind can shed light on a series of metaphysical issues, so that the edifice of semiotics could be erected on a philosophical ground. It proposes that a philosophical semiotics is, by necessity, a semiotic phenomenology about the construction of the “world of meaning” by signs, and any discussion about semiotics has to proceed around two core issues: meaning and the mind. This book particularly exemplifies the semiotic connections in various schools of traditional Chinese philosophies. In the “Pre-Imperial Age” (before BC 300), there emerged an abundance of semiotic thinking in China, from Yijing the first sign system that aims to explain everything in the world, to the Namists’s subtle argument about the form of meaning, from the Yin-Yang/five elements of the Han, to the “Things are non-existent while mind is non-non-existent” principle of the Vijñāptimātratāsiddhi School of Buddhism in the Tang, and from the Sudden Revelation of Chan Buddhism to the “Nothing outside the mind” endorsed by the Mindist Confucianism in the Ming. The mighty trend of philosophical heritage provides rich food to our understanding of the form of meaning.

Author : Deborah Cao
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
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Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351951975

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Chinese Law by Deborah Cao Pdf

Studying Chinese law from a linguistic and communicative perspective, this book examines meaning and language in Chinese law. It investigates key notions and concepts of law, the rule of law, and rights and their evolutionary meanings. It examines the linguistic usage and textual features in Chinese legal texts and legal translation, and probes the lawmaking process and the Constitution as speech act and communicative action. Taking a cross-cultural approach, the book applies major Western philosophical thought to Chinese law, in particular the ideas concerning language and communication by such major thinkers as Peirce, Whorf, Gadamer, Habermas, Austin and Searle. The focus of the study is contemporary People's Republic of China; however, the study also traces and links the inherited and introduced cultural and linguistic values and configurations that provide the context in which modern Chinese law operates.

Author : Tony Buchwald
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-13
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783656671886

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Can the term "early modern" be used to describe Chinese history? by Tony Buchwald Pdf

Academic Paper from the year 2013 in the subject Orientalism / Sinology - Chinese / China, grade: 1,3, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, course: Late Imperial China - Culture, Politics, History, language: English, abstract: “Early modernity” is a concept of ambiguity in historiographic scholarship and has been a topic for discussion for several decades. Søren Clausen discussed the term in regard to China in his paper, Early Modern China – A Preliminary Postmortem. For Clausen, the search for a terminology describing an “early modern China” emerged from the urge to incorporate China into a world history, whose importance he stresses in his introductory sentence: “A world that is increasingly becoming ‘one world’ needs a world history” . What he also did was to recap the influence other historians had on the discussion during the 1980s and 90s, which are partially also addressed in the paper.

Author : Matt Reeck
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000926064

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Ethics of Description by Matt Reeck Pdf

Ethics of Description: The Anthropological Dispositif and French Modern Travel Writing follows the development of a minor tradition in French literature where metropolitan authors traveling abroad demonstrate their awareness of the ethical conundrums of representing world peoples. During the colonial–modern era, currents of anthropological thought and representational practice are identifiable throughout society, and across literature, the arts, and the sciences. Collectively, they can be theorized as belonging to a dispositif, the anthropological dispositif. The modernization of anthropology serves as an ambivalent interlocutor for the realizations of the writers studied in this book about the difficulties of describing cultural realities that lie largely outside their ken. Anthropology motivates new literary representational strategies that are, alternatively, in keeping with scientific mandates or operate against them. Forty images are analyzed alongside literary works. A postcolonial chapter shows how the ethical awareness of the colonial–modern authors studied have impacted minority self-representation in contemporary France.

Author : Michael Lackner, Ph.D.,Natascha Vittinghoff
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004139190

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Mapping Meanings by Michael Lackner, Ph.D.,Natascha Vittinghoff Pdf

"Mapping Meanings," a broad-ranged introduction to China's intellectual entry into the family of nations, guides the reader into the late Qing encounter with Western, at the same time connecting convincingly to the broader question of the mobility of knowledge.

Author : Anne Wagner,Tracey Summerfield,Farid Samir Benavides Vanegas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847312068

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Contemporary Issues of the Semiotics of Law by Anne Wagner,Tracey Summerfield,Farid Samir Benavides Vanegas Pdf

The law is a symbolic construction and therefore rests on a variety of undertakings. What gives law its meaning is,for some, ideology, for others, the welfare of the majority. However, what is manifest is a conception of the law as a material structure that carries symbols of everyday life. The analyses that are made in the law and semiotics movements show that the laws symbolism cannot be understood by reference only to itself, a strictly legal meaning. It is a symbol that conveys life, a symbol that in itself is contaminated with life, politics, morality and so on. Law and Semiotics is an obvious meeting point between traditions, because it is the place where all the discussions about the law can find a common language. This is a collection of different papers where the institution of the law is investigated, in combination with, and as part of, a multiplicity of sign systems. Firstly, law can be understood as part of a global system of meaning (Part I) ; and, secondly, that despite the homogenising threat of globalisation, the play of legal meaning retains a socio-historical specificity (Part II). The global issues of human migration, human rights, colonisation and transnational power are played out in local spaces, in the public discourses through which they are given localised representation, in moments of activism, and as a tool of subversion. The law is a rhetorical device which at once constitutes these global and local truths but which is also constituted by them.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Asia
ISBN : UOM:39015013856672

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Doctoral Dissertations on Asia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Fabio Rambelli
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441161963

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A Buddhist Theory of Semiotics by Fabio Rambelli Pdf

One of the first attempts ever to present in a systematic way a non-western semiotic system. This book looks at Japanese esoteric Buddhism and is based around original texts, informed by explicit and rigorous semiotic categories. It is a unique introduction to important aspects of the thought and rituals of the Japanese Shingon tradition. Semiotic concerns are deeply ingrained in the Buddhist intellectual and religious discourse, beginning with the idea that the world is not what it appears to be, which calls for a more accurate understanding of the self and reality. This in turn results in sustained discussions on the status of language and representations, and on the possibility and methods to know reality beyond delusion; such peculiar knowledge is explicitly defined as enlightenment. Thus, for Buddhism, semiotics is directly relevant to salvation; this is a key point that is often ignored even by Buddhologists. This book discusses in depth the main elements of Buddhist semiotics as based primarily on original Japanese pre-modern sources. It is a crucial publication in the fields of semiotics and religious studies.

Author : Institute for Scientific Information
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1276 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 01633155

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Current Contents. Arts & Humanities by Institute for Scientific Information Pdf

Author : Youzheng Li
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UVA:X004096718

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The Structure of the Chinese Ethical Archetype by Youzheng Li Pdf

"A contemporary of the ancient Greek philosophy, pre-Chin thought presents a non-religious and non-metaphysical perspective on ethics. In order to make Chinese ethics theoretically more accessible to the Western readers, the book offers a hermeneutico-semiotic interdisciplinar approach. The Analects of Confucius are being structurally analyzed in order to reveal the epistemological preconditions and pragmatic rationality implied in the unsystematically edited maxims of this important motivational ethics. The other related ethical thoughts discussed are Taoist nihilism, Legalist philosophy of power and the political turn of Mencian-Confucian ethics. All of these pre-Chin Chinese ethical thoughts form a complete picture of the original situation of human ethical relationship."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Alice M.W. Hunt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004304123

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Palace Ware Across the Neo-Assyrian Imperial Landscape by Alice M.W. Hunt Pdf

In Palace Ware Across the Neo-Assyrian Imperial Landscape, Alice Hunt investigates the social and symbolic meaning of Palace Ware by understanding these vessels as a vehicle through which intricate interregional, intercultural relationships were negotiated, established and maintained.

Author : Carol J. Greenhouse
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501725029

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A Moment's Notice by Carol J. Greenhouse Pdf

Focusing on the problem of time—the paradox of time's apparent universality and cultural relativity—Carol J. Greenhouse develops an original ethnographic account of our present moment, the much-heralded postmodern condition, which is at the same time a reflexive analysis of ethnography itself. She argues that time is about agency and accountability, and that representations of time are used by institutions of law, politics, and scholarship to selectively refashion popular ideas of agency into paradigms of institutional legitimacy. A Moment's Notice suggests that the problem of time in theory is the corollary of problems of power in practice.Greenhouse develops her theory in examinations of three moments of cultural and political crisis: the resistance of the Aztecs against Cortes, the consolidation of China's First Empire, and the recent partisan political contests over Supreme Court nominees in the United States. In each of these cases, temporal innovation is integral to political improvisation, as traditions of sovereignty confront new cultural challenges. These cases return the discussion to current issues of inequality, postmodernity, cultural pluralism, and ethnography.