"Motivation and Meaning of a "Hodge-podge

With the compilation of the work that he named Youyang zazu NW ]S*?f (Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang), the erudite scholar, traveler, and chronicler Duan Chengshi g together, these elements produce a collection that seems familiar and yet is somehow perplexing. The collection has been largely ignored, particularly as a literary text, in both Western and Chinese Sinology. One reason for this is that in large part scholars have treated the collection as a repository of information useful to the social scientist or historian,2 and another is that critics have attempted to come to an unambiguous understanding of it by relegating it to one or another literary category. In order to study or categorize the work, critics have found it necessary to focus on parts, rather than the whole, and to determine which parts are most representative of the work.3 This is analogous to analyzing a sumptuous stew by attempting

Epistemology · Linguistics · Meaning (existential) · Chinese history and philosophy · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics · Japanese History and Culture · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology

• The Silk Road (丝绸之路) and sources of Chinese medicine expansion

  Open Access•Sean Bradley•Chinese Medicine and Culture•2019

  Add to list