ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the rhetoric ideas of ancient China in a theoretical sense. Daoism espoused views that are compatible with postmodern critiques that deny objective foundations for knowledge, essential meanings and identities, universal truths, and deprivilege reason and rationality. Daoism shares postmodern views of the plurality and instability of meanings and identities, and the decentered, perspectival text. Zhou argues that the intimate relations and formal beauty between characters, sentences, and passages, called Zhangfa, is deeply rooted in the Chinese culture. The views of Confucianism were mainly responsible for the origin and growth of the trend. The relevant works are worth reexamining for what that may reveal about the core of.
