Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction ix
5. Discounting the Language Crisis in Early China
6. The Crisis of Blockage 3
7. The Crisis of Blockage 23
8. The Prescriptive Crisis 45
9. The Prescriptive Crisis 63
10. The Prescriptive Crisis 89
11. Understanding Early Chinese Conceptions of Speech and Names
12. Successful “Communication” 113
13. “Ritual” versus Li 禮 as the Visible Complement of Sound 141
14. Zhengming and Li 禮 as the Visible Complement of Sound 167
15. Embodied Zhengming 181
16. Separating Lunyu 12.11 from Zhengming 199
17. Epilogue 219
18. Glossary of Terms with Aural or Visual Associations 235
19. Bibliography 259
20. Index 277