This book attempts to deconstruct certain key clusters of Chinese
characters and words, centering on themes such as war and peace,
kith and kin, male and female, rites and rituals, pleasure and
leisure to make them yield fascinating tales about Chinese culture
and history in which these words are embedded and which they at the
same time encapsulate. The Chinese language, Chinese history and
culture are presented as one long woven bolt of silk (for which
China has historically been noted), with the written language
conceived as the warp while the history and culture the weft. In
this process of linguistic exploration, the book shows in what ways
the Chinese written language may be said to be unique as well as to
reveal, amongst other things, certain aspects of: * ancient Chinese
religion, cosmology, philosophy, political theory, law, medicine,
astronomy, physics, geography; * their grasp, on the part of the
ancient Chinese people, of human reproduction, biology and
physiology, psychology, biochemistry, even neurology of the brain;
* what constitutes Chinese identity, the core values of Chinese
culture, the essential glue holding their society together; * their
daily existence, such as their food and drink, the houses they
lived in, the furniture they used, their chief modes of
transportation, etc. A fascinating look at Chinese language and
culture.
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