The rise of Chinese literary theory

intertextuality and system mutations in classical texts

Han-liang Chang

1-18

East Asian semiotics

graphic interpretations of body, mind and the universe

Dennis H. Cheng

19-37

Signification and performance of nonverbal signs in the confucianist ritual system

39-44

Distinguishing reality from discourse in Chinese

historiography from a point of view of historical semiotics

Youzheng Li

45-53

Three cornerstones of the former Soviet semiotics

a comparative study of the semiotic theories of Bakhtin, Lotman, and Uspenskij

Jie Zhang, Haihong Ji

55-66

Saussure, Peirce, and the Chinese picto-phonetic sign

Ersu Ding

67-79

The "blanks' and the "writing"

a narratological description of spring and autumn

Chi-hsiang Lee

81-95

Can the uncanny be represented?

Ying-hsiung Chou

97-121

Female sexuality

its allurement and repression in Geling Yan's "white snake"

Hsiu-chih Tsai

123-146

A Chinese sinthome

chan, modern subject and politico-semioticizing dream of the red chamber

Hsien-hao Sebastian Liao

147-171

From the sublime to the obscene

modalities of totalitarianism and jouissance

Yong Wang

173-191

Bodily movement and geographic categories

Xie Lingyun's "rhapsody on mountain dwelling" and the jin-song discourse on mountains and rivers

Yü-yü Cheng

193-219

Space metaphor as a signifying force in Chan poems

Ming-Yu Tseng

221-241

Presence, representation, and significance

an analysis of semiotic structures and corresponding conceptions of nature and culture

Hans-Georg Moeller

243-252

The Chinese strategy of transcendence

Charles E. Hammond

253-276

The semiotic structuration of home and identity in a song of the sad coffee shop

Hsiu-chih Tsai

277-301

Psychoanalytic semiotics and the interpretation of dream paintings

an example from Salvador Dali

Tim-hung KU

303-336

Greimas's semiotic square and its application in the anti-corruption campaign in mainland China

Hong Wang

337-351

We are digitized long before we have computers

analog and digital communication in the written sign system of human communication

Yun Xia

353-372