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Word-Images: Politics and Visual Cultures in China
2013
PORTAL: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies
In China, word-images have always played a crucial role in the construction of a claimed reality in the socio-political arena. According to the Confucian doctrine, a precise relationship exists between the idea of 'correctness' (zheng 正), as expressed in the paradigm of 'rectification of names' (zhengming 正名), and the art of governing the state (zheng 政) (Confucius 1960: 13.3). Confucian philosophers argued that names and language embodied norms and had a performative function. By simply
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