Naturalism and humanism have long histories in China, side-by-side with a long history of theistic belief. In this paper I will first sketch the early naturalistic and humanistic traditions in Chinese thought. I will then focus on the synthesis of these perspectives in Neo-Confucian religious thought. I will argue that these forms of non-theistic belief should be considered aspects of Chinese r...

Mol. Nutr. Food Res. 2022, 66, 2200164 DOI: 10.1002/mnfr.202200164 Roseburia hominis alleviates neuroinflammation by producing propionate and butyrate, which serve as histone deacetylase inhibitors of microglia. These findings supplied a new solution to reduce manipulating the microbiota. The inspiration image design comes from an ancient Chinese philosophy “Yin-Yang”. This is reported Liping D...

The capacity of the human mind to discover and invent both imagistic analogies and mathematical structures to represent reality is strikingly juxtaposed in the ancient Chinese text of the I Ching. Its emphasis on containing all sorts of opposites and its plastic appeal to multi-valenced experience has kept it alive through millennia and across cultures. Jung was introduced to its Taoist wisdom ...

Lean production, which has revolutionary production management and practice manner, is the third milestone of human industrialization history. Its key point is to eliminate waste in all aspects of a firm’s production activities through establishing production system with high agility. It represents the tendency of modern manufacturing industry. It has been credited as the standard production ma...

A survey of full-text data bases and related text processing techniques for Chinese ancient document in the past 12 years in Academia Sinica is presented in this paper. Five Institutes, (namely the Institute of History and phonology, the Institute of Taiwan History, the Institute of Literature and Philosophy, the Institute of Information Science and the Institute of Modern History ) and the Com...

Logic should have been defined as the unity of contradiction between logic director and logic implementation. Chinese Daoism asserts that everything is defined in the unity of opposites, namely yin and yang, accordingly yang conducts change and yin brings it up (I-Ching, also known as Book of Changes). In this way logic is redefined in an indeterminate style to facilitate “both A and Anti-A” et...

All three books, two written in the United States and one in France, demonstrate that valid cures can be obtained by means quite different from Western medicine in its present state, that anatomy and disease entities do not have to be the be-all and end-all of medical investigation, and that a system of functions and relationships between energies also seems to work. However, two of the writers...

Nulty, Timothy J. 2017. ‘Gong and Fa in Chinese Martial Arts’, Martial Arts Studies 3, 51-64. Phenomenology, embodiment, Merleau-Ponty, taijiquan, skill, technique, martial arts 10.18573/j.2016.10064 The distinction between gong (skill) and fa (technique) is ubiquitous in Chinese martial arts. Utilizing Maurice MerleauPonty’s notion of ‘embodied intentionality’, I examine this distinction. I dr...

Traditional Chinese medicine-based herbal medicines have gained increasing acceptance worldwide in recent years and are being pursued by pharmaceutical companies as rich resources for drug discovery. For many years, traditional Chinese medicines (TCM) have been applied for the treatment of cancers in China and beyond. Herbal medicines are generally low in cost, plentiful, and show very little t...

All three books, two written in the United States and one in France, demonstrate that valid cures can be obtained by means quite different from Western medicine in its present state, that anatomy and disease entities do not have to be the be-all and end-all of medical investigation, and that a system of functions and relationships between energies also seems to work. However, two of the writers...