ABSTRACT
China has introduced and translated modern Western body theories for almost one hundred years if we believe that it started in the 1920s. The travelling of Western body theory in China originated as an integral part of the May Fourth Movement of the mid 1910s and 1920s when Chinese intellectuals were enthusiastic about embracing new ideas to smash the shackles of feudalism. China's introduction and translation of modern Western body theories and subsequent application not only obeys a chronological order but also progresses in depth. Until the 1980s, China resumed the transmitting of Western body theories and the application as an answer to the reform and opening-up policy. Sun Zaiguo's paper about Merleau-Ponty's philosophy written in 1991, the first complete introduction to Western body theories since China shifted its focus from the sex-oriented body to the multifaceted body, can be viewed as a try.
