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The word "Tao" has a variety of meanings in both the ancient and modern Chinese language. Aside from its purely prosaic use meaning road, channel, path, principle, or similar, [2] the word has acquired a variety of differing and often confusing metaphorical, philosophical, and religious uses. In most belief systems, the word is used ...
On 7 January 1964, the Chinese Character Reform Committee submitted a "Request for Instructions on the Simplification of Chinese Characters" to the State Council, mentioning that "due to the lack of clarity on analogy simplification in the original Chinese Character Simplification Scheme (汉字简化方案), there is some disagreement and confusion in the application field of publication”.
Patrick Hew used the Chinese Room argument to deduce requirements from military command and control systems if they are to preserve a commander's moral agency. He drew an analogy between a commander in their command center and the person in the Chinese Room, and analyzed it under a reading of Aristotle's notions of "compulsory" and "ignorance ...
Fa is a concept in Chinese philosophy that concerns aspects of ethics, logic, and law. It can be accurately translated as 'law' in some contexts, [ 1 ] but as a 'model' or 'standard' for behavior in most ancient texts, namely the Mozi, with prominent examples including the performance of carpentry. [ 2 ]
The Vinegar Tasters (三酸圖; 'three sours'; 嘗醋翁; 'vinegar-tasting old men'; 嘗醋圖, 尝醋图) is a traditional [clarification needed] subject in Chinese painting, which later spread to other East Asian countries. The allegorical image represents three elderly men tasting vinegar. The identity of the three men varies.
Yuyan (寓言) is commonly translated [28] in the modern Chinese meaning of "metaphor". Watson explains his "imputed" translation to mean "words put into the mouth of historical or fictional persons to make them more compelling", [29] which Ziporyn adapts.
Simplified Chinese characters are one of two standardized character sets widely used to write the Chinese language, with the other being traditional characters.Their mass standardization during the 20th century was part of an initiative by the People's Republic of China (PRC) to promote literacy, and their use in ordinary circumstances on the mainland has been encouraged by the Chinese ...
Cake theory (simplified Chinese: 蛋糕论; traditional Chinese: 蛋糕論; pinyin: dàngāo lùn) is a metaphor about economic development and the redistribution of wealth in the political discourse of China. It emerged in 2010 as problems with an increased wealth gap became gradually more apparent. If economic development is seen as analogous ...