Part Ⅰ Ancient and Early Modern Sign Systems Studies

Chapter 1 The Rise ofChinese Literary Theory:Intertextuality and System Mutations in Classical Texts

Chapter 2 Controversy over Language:Towards Pre-Qin Semiotics

Chapter 3 The Paradox of Learning and the Elenchos:Plato's Meno,Augustine's De Magistro,and Gongsun Long's Jianbailun(On Hardness and Whiteness)

Chapter 4 Controvert the Dead:Sextus Empiricus and Plutarch against the Stoics

Chapter 5 Between Nature and Culture:A Glimpse of the Biosemiotic World in Fourth Century BCE Chinese Philosophy

Chapter 6 Intersubjectivity in Controversy:A Story from the Taoist Philosopher Zhuangzi

Chapter 7 Plato and Peirce on Likeness and Semblance

Chapter 8 Persuasion in the Pre-Qin China:The Great Debate Revisited

Chapter 9 The Rise of Semiotics and the Liberal Arts:Reading Martianus Capella's The Marriage of Philology and Mercury

Chapter 10 The Theorist as Visionary:Logocentrism in"Medieval"Chinese and European Critical Discourse

Part Ⅱ Reflections on Chinese Writing System

Chapter 11 Semiographics:A Peircian Approach to Chinese Script

Chapter 12 Naming Animals in Chinese Writing

Chapter 13 Ancient Chinese Concept of fa(Law)and Its Orthographical Representations

Chapter 14 Hallucinating the Other:Derridean Fantasies of Chinese Script

Chapter 15 The Legacy of Josef Vachek and Its Implications in the Studies of Chinese Script

Chapter 16 Graphemics and Novel Interpretation:The Case of WangWen-hsing

Part Ⅲ Genre Studies

Chapter 17 Towards a Structural Generic Theory of Tang Stories

Chapter 18 The Yang Lin Story Series:A Structural Analysis

Chapter 19 The Anonymous Autobiographer:Roland Barthes/Shen Fu

Chapter 20 A Lover's Discourse versus Story:Su Man-Shu's"The Broken Hairpin"

Chapter 21 Mental Space Mapping in Classical Chinese Poetry:A Cognitive Approach

Chapter 22 Calendar and Aphorism:A Generic Study of Carl Linnaeus's Fundamenta Botanica and Philosophia Botanica

Chapter 23 Mimetic Desire/Dramatic Structure:Racine's Phaedra and Ma Chih-yiian's(Ma Zhiyuan)Han-kung ch'iu(Hangongqiu)

Chapter 24 Literary London:An Essay

Part Ⅳ Influence or Reception?

Chapter 25 On the"Birth"of Historiography of Philosophy in China

Chapter 26 Hu Shih and John Dewey:"Scientific Method"in the May Fourth Era—China 1919 and After

Chapter 27 Reflections on Cross-cultural Literary Contact:The Reception of American Critical Theory in Taiwan in the 1970s

Chapter 28 Western Theory as"Colonial Discourse"?Or(One More Time!)The Permanent Crisis of Comparative Literature

Chapter 29 Perspective and Tertium Comparationis:The Case of Asian Literature

Chapter 30 Image/Mirage ofthe Other:Contemporary Taiwanese Poets'Reception of French Surrealism

Part Ⅴ Nature/Culture Writing and Recent Advances in Sign Studies

Chapter 31 Peirce and Cassirer on Deictics and"Pronominal"Communication

Chapter 32 Encoding the Textual Sign in Natural History versus Natural System:The Case of Darwin and Linnaeus

Chapter 33 Is Jakob von Uexkiill,the Founding Father of Biosemiotics,a Semiotician or Hermeneutician?

Chapter 34 Is Language a Primary Modeling System?On Juri Lotman's Concept of Semiosphere

Chapter 35 Semioticians Make Strange Bedfellows,Or,Once Again:"Is Language a Primary Modeling System?"

Chapter 36 Notes towards a Semiotics of Parasitism

Chapter 37 Disaster Semiotics:An Alternative"Global Semiotics"?

Index