Culture, Philosophy, and Chinese Medicine

Contents: Six Categories of Chinese Graphs - Evolution of the Scripts: From Oracle-Bone Inscription to Regular Script - Classical Chinese Thinking Ways Residing in Chinese Characters - The Prospect of Chinese Characters - Western Scientific Thinking Ways Implied in Phonetic Writing - The World View of Chinese Culture - Key to Understand Chinese Culture and Philosophy - Worship of Thunder and Lightening: SHEN & RU - Reflections of Philosophy of Chinese Medicine in Chinese Characters - Intellectual Flowering in Early China: The «Hundred Schools of Thought» - Backgrounds of Classical Chinese Philosophy - Confucianism and Its Influences on Chinese Medicine - Taoist School and Its Influences on Chinese Medicine - The Yin-Yang Theory - Contemplating «Zhong Yi» - Cultural Differences between Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine - The Metaphorizing Process & the Way to Form Metaphors in Chinese Medicine - Metaphorizing: The Way to Bridge The Book of Changes and Chinese Medicine - Metaphorizing: A Vital Way to Understand the Human Being - Metaphorizing: A Vital Way to Understand and Modernize Chinese Herbal Medicine - Number Metaphors for Constructing the Theoretical System of Chinese Medicine - Metaphorizing: A Vital Way to Develop Chinese Medicine - Etymology-Based Literal Translation Approach and Strangification: Efficient Methods for Successful Intercultural Communications.

Fengli Lan is associate professor for applied linguistics and Chinese Medicine at the Foreign Language Teaching Center at the Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Her research fields include Chinese Medicine, applied linguistics, and the philosophy of science, esp. intercultural and translation studies on Chinese Medicine.