
Traditional Chinese Versus Western Ways of Thinking about Categories
George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, in Philosophy in the Flesh; The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought, wrote that many concepts that people

George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, in Philosophy in the Flesh; The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought, wrote that many concepts that people

A common definition of emotion according to Western Psychology is: A psychological system that appraises internal or external, context-related causes in terms of their significance

I thought I’d cause a little trouble while I was in Egypt. I knew that this story would mess with my Cairo guide’s head.

You always make it there, you make it anywhere. If Frank Sinatra had lived in the eighth century, he would have been strutting around Chang’an,

I had read about guys like this in books on Chinese art, but I was surprised that there were so many of them when I

After China’s Han dynasty disintegrated in the early third century CE, a succession of warlords became emperor wannabes, but their rules were short lived. Turkic-speaking

A lot of people have heard of Nanjing because of the massacre in 1937-8. But the city has a rich history that goes back

Yunnan’s Erhai Lake has been multicultural for centuries. It was the center of the fabled Nan Chao kingdom, which presided over much of northern

Islam and China have created vastly underappreciated cultural fusions. Islam was introduced to China in the Tang Dynasty through ports of the southeastern coastal

Ancient Chinese thinkers developed ideas of a universe that’s holistic, highly resonant, politically centered, and within the human scale. Confucianism is an excellent example. But