Taiwanese traditional architecture has been classified as belonging to the Southern style of Chinese architecture. Owing to geographical and climatic conditions, and to its own history, Taiwanese architecture has diversified from mainstream Chinese architecture. This diversification has given rise to styles of buildings that were (and are) quite distinct from their Chinese origin. The authors b...

“The unity of heaven and man” is one the most important thoughts in Chinese philosophy, which embodies simple natural ecological view. From perspective Zodiac, this paper demonstrates relationship between man, nature, zodiac to reflect that China's view closely related culture twelve zodiacs. Human reproduction inseparable from invention phenological calendar zodiac, development agricultural ci...

The birth of the theory yin and yang is result a long process reflecting generalizing practice Chinese people in ancient times. original meaning was only an expression contrast between light darkness. Its development has become to explain laws nature, society thought. In this article we will focus on clarifying relationship human body through relationships above, below, left right, inside outsi...

Wu Mi, a believer in humanism, and student of Irving Babbitt, loved traditional Eastern Western cultures advocated the “continuity convergence” literature. This is an ideology fair just treatment different East West, externally opposing drastic cultural changes but internally pursuing continuity ancient modern culture integration cultures. Due to its fierce criticism &ld...

In this article, I attempt to make use of Western metaphysical notions to explicate the cosmological variances in Chinese philosophical thinking, with specific reference to the debates among the NeoConfucian thinkers. While I do not presume and argue that Chinese philosophers dealt with the same Western issues, I do believe that a comparative study of this nature can point to a new direction of...

Key words: strong thesis of tacit knowledge, weak theses of tacit knowledge, Wittgensteinian tradition, Polanyian tradition, Chinese philosophy In this paper, I attempt to create a dialogue between the Wittgensteinian tradition and the Polanyian tradition concerning the understanding of the concept of tacit knowledge/knowing from the perspective of the problem of articulation. Norwegian philoso...