Tactile experiences of the body as a living object:static verbs of touch in Shi ji 105 (2nd century BC)

Elisabeth Hsu

摘要

Preliminary remark: this is a book chapter from a forth coming book on Chunyu Yi’s pulse diagnosis, and it discusses how the quality of the pulse at the body surface reflects ideas about body parts inside the body. The discussion is based on a finding outlined in my article in Innovation in Chinese Medicine, CUP 2001, and builds on the finding that the text is formulaic, and analyses it according to the method of text structure semantics (there called: structural analytic method). For our conference, the entire section on huo ji tang is irrelevant, but the section on the bladder and how conceptions of the bladder interrelate with the pulse quality large is the focus of my argument.