Ideogram: Chinese Characters and the Myth of Disembodied Meaning 9780824845681
In this latest book, J. Marshall Unger exposes the historical, scientific, cultural, and practical flaws accompanying th
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English Pages 216 [214] Year 2003
Table of contents :
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Agony and bliss
2. Cryptograms vs. pictograms
3. The Great Wall of China and other exotic fables
4. Dave Barry vs. the intellectuals
5. How would a magician memorize Chinese characters?
6. Lord Chesterfield and the Mandarins
7. Where do hunches come from?
8. In the basement under the Chinese Room
9. Converging strands: can ‘‘ideogram’’ be salvaged?
Notes
References
Index
About the Author
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