ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the understanding of peace in Chinese contexts. The term 'an' that is often understood as an equivalent of 'peace' in European varieties, is up until the present day still written by an ancient pictogram that combines two meaningful parts: first, a 'roof' above, and underneath it, a 'woman'. A woman under a roof is a woman not moving. When translating a concept from one language to the other, one has to take into account both the complexity of a web of different meanings of a term in the original language and another comparatively complex web of meanings that exists in the language of translation. The discipline which focuses more precisely on the spatiality of peace within the peace studies calls itself the 'geography of peace'. A woman under a roof, understood as signifying home, shelter and stability, includes and presupposes efficient peacemaking on all three levels.
