East Asian Semiotics: Graphic Interpretations of Body, Mind and the Universe
Resource
TAJS (The American Journal of Semiotics, Semiotic Society of America),23,1-4.
Journal
The American Journal of Semiotics
Pages
19-37
Date Issued
2007-12
Date
2007-12
Author(s)
Cheng, Dennis
Abstract
In East Asia, there has been a long tradition of using graphs and diagrams to express abstract ideas. This paper is to give an account of the East Asian methods for representing body, mind and the universe. The fundamental ideas of East Asian graphic interpretation mostly originated from the Yijing (I Ching, Zhouyi), and were later developed by Confucian and Daoist thinkers to describe the universe, the mind, and the body as an organic totality. By comparing different approaches to portraying the universe, this paper offers a critical analysis of East Asian semiotics.
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Type
journal article