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    Metaphor: The Weavers of Chinese Medizin
    Metaphor: The Weavers of Chinese Medizin
    Metaphor: The Weavers of Chinese Medizin
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    Metaphor: The Weavers of Chinese Medizin

    By Fengli Lan and Friedrich Wallner

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    Qu Xiang Bi Lei is the metaphorizing process and the way of forming metaphors in Chinese medicine, and metaphor is its deep structure. In real fact, Chinese medicine is a linguistic medical system for it forms in the way of linguistication and metaphorization. Interpreting metaphors in Chinese medicine is a key to understand, reconstruct, inherit and develop Chinese medicine.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTraugott Bautz
    Release dateJul 31, 2015
    ISBN9783869458168
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