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EMOTIONS IN LATE IMPERIAL CHINESE MEDICAL DISCOURSE: A PRELIMINARY REPORT

EMOTIONS IN LATE IMPERIAL CHINESE MEDICAL DISCOURSE: A PRELIMINARY REPORT Angelika Messner EMOTIONS IN LA TE IMPERIAL CHINESE MEDICAL DISCOURSE: A PRELIMINARY REPORT Emotions within tradition al Chinese medical discourse are not private "soul-states", in no way do emotions form a category apart from the intellectual and the physical. They form part of a universal system of correspondences. Within this global pattern of thinking, their value for the human being and his behaviour towards society, emotions seem to be neither emphasized nor underestimated. Since they are perceived as certain "processes" produced by a conglomeration of essence-qi (jing-qi ~ ~), they are liable to be "worked upon" like any other qi-manifestation. This view can be supported by more than fifty late Imperial medical writings on madness, which I analized for my dissertation project. 1 For our purpose it is of interest that the most extensive work ever printed in China, the Encyclopedia Gujin tushu jicheng t!1 4- fII .. ~ Jf2.. presented to the throne in 1726, is one of the earliest examples in the history of China where emotions (qingzhi ,tt ;t) were identified as a special and explicit topic. üue has to wonder why this topic has been included in the subsection on medicine (yibu I- *ß). Moreover, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Ming Qing Yanjiu Brill

EMOTIONS IN LATE IMPERIAL CHINESE MEDICAL DISCOURSE: A PRELIMINARY REPORT

Messner, Angelika
Ming Qing Yanjiu , Volume 9 (1): 19 – Jan 30, 2000
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Angelika Messner EMOTIONS IN LA TE IMPERIAL CHINESE MEDICAL DISCOURSE: A PRELIMINARY REPORT Emotions within tradition al Chinese medical discourse are not private "soul-states", in no way do emotions form a category apart from the intellectual and the physical. They form part of a universal system of correspondences. Within this global pattern of thinking, their value for the human being and his behaviour towards society, emotions seem to be neither emphasized nor underestimated. Since they are perceived as certain "processes" produced by a conglomeration of essence-qi (jing-qi ~ ~), they are liable to be "worked upon" like any other qi-manifestation. This view can be supported by more than fifty late Imperial medical writings on madness, which I analized for my dissertation project. 1 For our purpose it is of interest that the most extensive work ever printed in China, the Encyclopedia Gujin tushu jicheng t!1 4- fII .. ~ Jf2.. presented to the throne in 1726, is one of the earliest examples in the history of China where emotions (qingzhi ,tt ;t) were identified as a special and explicit topic. üue has to wonder why this topic has been included in the subsection on medicine (yibu I- *ß). Moreover,

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