Analyzes international and cultural relationships informed by "China," a category that is becoming ever more indispensable and yet unstable in everyday narratives.

Provides a new perspective on important linguistic issues in philosophical and religious Daoism through the comparative lens of twentieth-century European philosophies of language.

Expanded edition with new chapters and updates to the translation and bibliography.

This book presents a coherent philosophy of signs without postulating objects to which they refer or meanings which they express.