英文摘要
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Since the pre-Qin times, it has been very common to compare body to the national body, and the heart as the center of the body to the emperor as that of the national body. Such centrism was based on the metaphysics of the ”body of the way.” The trinity of the body, the national body, and the body of the way forms a unitary and centrist metaphysical discourse which serves the Chinese monarchial politics. This paper seeks to use the discourse of body politics to examine the critique of the unified and authoritarian politics in ”Zhuangzi”. I will mainly focus on the deconstructionist reading of the body and the body of the way, and the critique of the centrist thought, so as to demonstrate how it celebrates difference and diversity.
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