Spread The Spatial Tendency Of Traditional Chinese Medicine Research

It is a whole new subject to study the historical evolution and current state oftraditional Chinese medicine (TCM) from the viewpoint of communication. Withcombination of philology and history, it is to apply the sociological method,hermeneutical method and empirical research method in this article to study thecommunicative phenomena of TCM, for the purpose to attempt to make anexploratory research on the TCM communication and discipline. The rise time ofcommunication is not very long, but it is believed that the abundant basiccommunication theory has been stored in the TCM academic and clinical diagnosisand treatment activities, by analyzing the operation state of TCM communication forover2000years from the viewpoint of communication.The impact of TCM and communication is not a simple physical combination,but a chemical coalescence, to study TCM from the viewpoint of communication, andto exploit the new field of communication by means of TCM study. The definition ofTCM communication is not only referring to the TCM self-features, but also involvedin the essentials occurred in the communicative process and the actions and effectsof TCM communication. Therefore, it is defined TCM communication as thetheory-sharing process between the theoretical creators and learners and thediagnosis and treatment process between the doctors and patients, with the “Yin andYang” and “five elements” as the theoretical features, with the “zang-organphenomena” of human body as the basic symbol, and with the “treatment basedupon pattern identification” as the encoded and decoding modes, by use of thesubjectification cognition in the article.The TCM communication is a subjectification activity. The subjectificationtendency in TCM communication was naturally developed in the historydevelopment process. In the long history development, the TCM academic activities,clinical diagnosis and treatment activities and TCM texts presented the stronglysubjectification tendency. In Chapter One, it is to launch the discourse the humanistic features of TCM,with viewpoint of “humanism”, focusing on the four dimensionalities of TCM concept,thinking mode, TCM clinic and TCM text. It is to propose that the subjectificationtendency of TCM communication is the extension of that “TCM is the humanism”and proposition of humanitarianism. The living conception of seeking the life“harmony” advocated by TCM, and the core concept of “the benevolent beingmacrobian” emphasized in TCM have been sunk deep into the hearts of the people,and internalized as a kind of life ideology in daily life of Chinese people.In Chapter Two, it starts with TCM communication, to study in depth therelationship among the multiple elements of its communicative circumstance, itsinitiators (communicative subjects), its communicative modes and its communicativemedia, so as to show the complicated connotation of the selective communication,selective reception and selective comprehension of the communicative subjectsduring the communicative process of TCM academics, so that it fully presents thedifficult progression of TCM academics in ever-present questioning and controversyfrom sprout to development, to growing prosperity, to conservation andback-to-ancients, and further to being deeply questioned. As an interpersonalcommunicative mode, TCM communication is mainly characterized a kind ofinter-generational communication and an academic inheritance phenomenon inlongitudinal history, with the characteristics of a communication of “inside”,inheritance and people as media.In Chapter Three, it starts with the communicative phenomena in TCM clinicactivities. It is believed that the TCM clinic process is not only a process to cure thesickness to save the patients, but also a process that the doctor spreads the medicaltheories, recognition of diseases, and viewpoint of life preservation, and a furtherprocess that the doctor builds up self-image, establishes prestige and constructs hisown academic brand. This characteristic starts when the patient seeks medical advice,and carries on through the whole process when the patient seeks for medical adviceand the doctor treats the patient.The establishment of doctor-patient relationship is the precondition of TCM clinic communication. Before the establishment of doctor-patient relationship, thepatient and doctor, as the two subjects, have a process of mutual selection. Thesubjectification characteristics embody in the emphasis on the doctor’s experienceand patient’s feeling. It emphasizes on the characteristics of the individualization indiagnosis and treatment methods, including the individualization of medical modes,the individualization of diagnosis and treatment for the patient, and theindividualization of the doctor’s academic thoughts, the technicalization in thediagnosis and treatment process, and the patient’s self-experience as the major clinictherapeutic effect evaluation criteria.In Chapter Four, it starts with the characteristics of TCM texts, to deal with thetheme exposition. It is believed that TCM texts are the important carrier of TCMcommunication. The expression mode of classic Chinese style and the language formof metaphor recognition supply the precondition to the subjectificationinterpretation of texts. Thus, the unique sight in TCM communication, the text modecommunication is formed. Because of lack of impersonate communicators andsupervisors during the text mode communication, it is necessary for the subjects toplay an active role during the process when the information is communicated insidethe exponents. Secondly, in order to realize better communicative effect, the authorsoften attempted to assist the communication of TCM information by means ofliterary modification and style package design, virtually amplifying the needs to thesubjectification interpretation. Thirdly, as the information receptors of the exponents,they all had their personal intention, to selectively reach out to the TCM texts and topurposively interpret them, thus they consciously or unconsciously applied their ownsubjectification experience and thinking mode to understand the TCM texts, andthen they created the new content on the basis of the TCM classic original works.It is believed in this article that the subjectification tendency in TCMcommunication is formed naturally in the history development process. The longhistory development, TCM workers had a difficult and arduous work through thewhole journey. The rise and wane of TCM are not only closely interrelated to thedestiny of Chinese culture, but also closely related to its unique communicative concept, communicative mode and communicative method. Furthermore, thecommunicative subjectification has been playing a very important role in the TCMcommunication. It will be of the realistic social value to the current TCMdevelopment to analyze and think about the subjectification characteristics of TCMcommunication and to unveil the mystery of TCM communication.