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Author Lan, Fengli, author.

Title Metaphor : the weavers of Chinese medicine / Fengli Lan ; with an introduction by Friedrich Wallner.

Publication Info. Nordhausen : Traugott Bautz, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Libri nigri ; 47
Libri nigri ; 47.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Cover ; Titelei ; Impressum ; Table of Contents; List of Tables; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Author's Foreword; 1 Cultural Differences between Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine ; 1.1 Chinese Medicine Going Closer to Humanities Rather than Natural Science ; 1.2 Linguistic Differences; 1.2.1 Logographic Writing, Phonetic Writing, and Thinking Modes ; 1.2.2 Chinese Medical Terminology and Western Medical Terminology; 1.2.2.1 Three Categories of Chinese Medical Terminology; 1.2.2.2 Three Categoriess of Western Medical Terminology.
3.1.4 Dao-Qi Monism: The Philosophical Foundation of Tian Ren He Yi and Qu Xiang Bi Lei 3.2 Three Key Processes of Qu Xiang Bi Lei: Imaging -- Analogizing -- Metaphorizing ; 3.2.1 "Xiang ": From Elephant to Imaging; 3.2.1.1 The Original Meaning of "Xiang ": Elephant; 3.2.1.2 Xiang as Reality; 3.2.1.3 The Xiang Taken: Image; 3.2.2 "Bi 比": From "Shoulder to Shoulder" to Analogizing; 3.2.2.1 Bi Lei: Analogizing; 3.2.2.2 The Ontological Presupposition of Bi Lei or Analogizing: Tian Ren He Yi ; 3.2.2.3 Chief Procedure of Bi Lei or Analogizing: Joint Application with Other Method(s).
2.2.2.2 Tian Ren He Yi as Philosophical Foundation of Dao of Chinese Medicine 2.2.3 Dong Zhongshu: Man Mirroring Heaven ; 2.2.4 Connotations of Tian Ren He Yi; 2.3 Tian Ren He Yi: The Ontological Presupposition of Chinese Medicine; 3 Qu Xiang Bi Lei: The Metaphorizing Process and the Way of Forming Metaphors in Chinese Medicine ; 3.1 Metaphor West and East: Similarities and Differences; 3.1.1 Metaphor West and East: Origins; 3.1.2 Metaphor West and East: Similarities; 3.1.3 Metaphors in Discourses of Western Science and Chinese Science: Similarities and Differences.
2.1.2 One (一 and 壹): The Origin of All Things2.1.3 Heaven: Tian 天; 2.1.4 Man: Ren 人; 2.1.5 Earth: Di 地; 2.1.6 Three: San, 三; 2.1.6.1 The original meaning of "San 三": Three and Many ; 2.1.6.2 Three Gives Birth to All Things; 2.1.6.3 The Importance of "the Central and Harmonious Qi"; 2.2 Tian Ren He Yi: The World View of Chinese Culture; 2.2.1 Dao : The Way of the Nature and Medicine; 2.2.2 The Book of Changes: Tian Ren He Yi as Philosophical Foundation of Dao of All Kinds in Chinese Culture ; 2.2.2.1 Viewpoint of Unity with Three Dimensions.
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Subject Medicine, Chinese -- Terminology.
Medicine, Chinese.
Genre/Form Terminology.
Subject Medical sciences -- Language.
Medical sciences.
Metaphor.
Metaphor.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Wallner, Friedrich, 1945- author of introduction.
Other Form: Print version: Lan, Fengli. Metaphor : The Weavers of Chinese Medizin. Nordhausen : Traugott Bautz Verlag, ©2015 9783959480208
ISBN 9783869458168 (electronic book)
386945816X (electronic book)
9783959480208