فهرست مطالب
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Egyptian Hieroglyphic and Chinese Characters
Chapter 1: Platonism and the Strong Theory
Chapter 2: Aristotelianism and the Soft Theory
Chapter 3: Hellenized Egypt, Pythagoreanism, and the Primitivist Theory
Chapter 4: Patristic Apologetics and the Scriptural Theory
Chapter 5: Neoplatonism and the Hermetic Theory
Chapter 6: Universals and the Scholastic Theory
Chapter 7: Renaissance Neoplatonism and the Emblematic Theory
Chapter 8: Athanasius Kircher on Egyptian and Chinese Ideography
Chapter 9: The Great Chinese Encyclopedia
Chapter 10: Zhengming 正名 “Making Words Correct” and Chinese Language Theory
Chapter 11: Chinese Language Theory and the Interpretation of the Classics
Chapter 12: The Erya and Lexicographic Classification
Chapter 13: The Erya and Chinese Language Theory
Chapter 14: The Shuowen jiezi and Chinese Language Theory
Chapter 15: The “Shuowen Postface” (Annotated Translation)
Conclusion: Ideography and Chinese Language Theory
Appendix: The Metalinguistic Terms ming 名, yi 義, yi 意, and zhi 志
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