Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Discounting the Language Crisis in Early China
1. The Crisis of Blockage: Accessing and Transmitting Obscure Things
2. The Crisis of Blockage: Why Not "Language and Reality"?
3. The Prescriptive Crisis: Nomenclature, Not System
4. The Prescriptive Crisis: Naming and Distinguishing
5. The Prescriptive Crisis: Correcting Names without "Performing" Rules
Part II. Understanding Early Chinese Conceptions of Speech and Names
6. Successful "Communication": Getting the Yi ¿ and Becoming Tong ¿
7. "Ritual" versus Li ¿ as the Visible Complement of Sound
8. Zhengming and Li ¿ as the Visible Complement of Sound
9. Embodied Zhengming: How We Are Influenced by Seeing versus Hearing
10. Separating Lunyu 12.11 from Zhengming
Epilogue
Appendix Glossary of Terms with Aural or Visual Associations
Bibliography
Index

Jane Geaney is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Richmond and the author of On the Epistemology of the Senses in Early Chinese Thought.