Metaphor and Meaning
Thinking Through Early China with Sarah Allan
- 256 pages
- English
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Metaphor and Meaning
Thinking Through Early China with Sarah Allan
About this book
Examines questions of cosmos, society, and self through the metaphors and language of ancient Chinese texts and artifacts.
In Metaphor and Meaning, scholars from China, the United States, and Europe draw on Sarah Allan's groundbreaking application of conceptual metaphor theory to the study of early Chinese philosophy and material culture. Conceptual metaphor theory treats metaphors not just as linguistic expressions but as fundamental structures of thought that define one's conceptual system and perception of reality. To understand another culture's worldview, then, hinges upon identifying the right metaphors, through which it then becomes possible to navigate between shared and unshared experiences. The contributors pursue lines of argument that complement, enhance, or challenge Allan's prior investigations into these root metaphors of early Chinese philosophy, whether by explicitly engaging with conceptual metaphor theory or, more indirectly, by addressing meaning construction in a broader sense. Like Allan's interpretative works, Metaphor and Meaning interrogates both transmitted traditions and newly unearthed archaeological finds to understand how people in early China thought about the cosmos, society, and themselves.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword: Appreciation of Professor Sarah Allan’s Scholarly Contributions
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. A Fluid Cosmos: Cosmologies of Creative Flow in Early China
- 2. Water as Homology in the Construction of Classical Chinese Medicine
- 3. Destruction of Temples and Arresting Spirits: Metaphors of War, Illness, and Health in Daoist Conversion Narratives
- 4. Patterns in Stone: The Third Metaphor of Chinese Philosophy
- 5. Humans Can Broaden the Way, Sages Can Continue and Carry Out the Workings of Tian: 人能弘道, 聖人能繼天立極
- 6. Exorcism and the Spirit Turtle
- 7. Transcription Notes on the “Mind as Ruler” Section in the Tsinghua Bamboo Manuscript The Heart Is Called the Center (Xin shi wei zhong 心是謂中)
- 8. Texts, Historicity, and Metaphors in Early China: Reading Tang Resides Near the Mound of Tang (Tang chuyu Tangqiu 湯處於湯丘) in the Tsinghua Collection of Warring States Bamboo Manuscripts
- 9. Some Remarks on the Value and Inner Meaning of the Way of Archery
- 10. The Meaning of the Graph and Word ge 革 in the Huayuanzhuang East Oracle Bone Corpus and Related Questions
- 11. Notes on a Cornerstone of Early Chinese Argumentative Rhetoric: The Function Word gù 故
- List of Contributors
- Index
- Back Cover