ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores the aporetic experiences to consider the uniqueness of the Chinese "wind" and "body" system of reason and knowledge on a cross-cultural landscape. It clarifies how mobilize the Chinese "wind" and "body" as "paradigm examples" in Agamben's sense to historicize China's language, the educational body, and the teacher–student difference. This historicization is to cut into the broader issues of knowledge/reason, education, and curriculum in present China. The book explains how to historicize China's system of knowledge, education, and curriculum with and beyond the Western categories and frameworks. It identifies "epistemicide" (Paraskeva, 2016), or epistemological crisis, as often a hidden effect of a "normative" comparative paradigm and a globalizing of West-Eurocentric discourses as epistemic rules in the rest of the world.
