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Metaphor and Meaning: Thinking Through Early China with Sarah Allan

Name: Metaphor and Meaning: Thinking Through Early China with Sarah Allan
Brand: State University of New York Press
SKU: 9781438498300
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Contributors:

Constance A. Cook (Editor), Christopher J. Foster (Editor), Susan Blader (Editor)

Publisher:

State University of New York Press

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

History, Philosophy, Social Science

Book Subcategory:

Asia, Taoist, Archaeology

Book Topic:

China

Series:

Suny Chinese Philosophy and Culture

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Release Date:

2024-07-01

ISBN 13:

9781438498300

Weight:

1.25 lbs

Size:

9.00 x 6.00 x 0.75 inches

Pages:

270

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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.

About the Author
Constance A. Cook is Professor of Chinese at Lehigh University, Christopher J. Foster is an independent scholar, and Susan Blader is Associate Professor Emerita of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures at Dartmouth College. Together they are also the coeditors of Myth and the Making of History: Narrating Early China with Sarah Allan and Bone, Bronze, and Bamboo: Unearthing Early China with Sarah Allan, both published by SUNY Press.