ABSTRACT
This chapter explores a historical imprint and destruction of the Chinese "body" by juxtaposing two body events, namely, Confucius' ritual body as performed in the Yijing guan-hexagram and the current controversial schooling kneeling-bowing events. It relates to observe-experience, problematize, and compare two contextualized modes of reasoning on the Chinese body in connection with teaching, learning, and teacher–student dis-ordering as exemplified through two events. The chapter also explores the historical tones and textures such commonsensical notions as teaching, learning, and teacher–student relation can nurture. It aims to solve the complex textures and contextures of the Chinese body as a material being and meanwhile problematizing our taken-for-granted conceptualizations of body, teaching, learning, and teacher–student dis-ordering. The chapter describes an intercultural and historical detour and access provide a practical strategy.
