Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Figures and Tables -- Meaning of Symbols and Orthographic Conventions -- Introduction -- 1 The Platonic Triad and Its Chinese Counterpart -- 2 Ontological Realism under Fire -- 3 The Return of the Subject(s) -- 4 The Peircean Trichotomy -- 5 The Poetic Logic -- 6 Metaphor and Culture -- 7 Myth Making and Its Socio-Economic Functions -- Epilogue: Semiotics as an Interdisciplinary Enterprise -- Technical Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Biographical Sketches -- Notes -- Cited Works and General Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X
Summary
The first major work in Sino-Western comparative semiotics, Parallels, Interactions, and Illuminations is a trans-disciplinary and intercultural effort that makes intellectual connections not only across diverse academic fields but also between Chinese and Western theories of the sign
