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A key difficulty in exploring the origins of Chinese civilization lies in verifying the history of the Xia Dynasty. Studies of the Yu, Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties by modern Chinese scholars have gone through two stages of development: one of doubt and one of interpretation.
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Saussure defines a sign as being composed of a signifier (form or image), and the signified (idea or concept).
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Ye, S. (2022). Yu’s Central Bear Flag. In: A Mythological Approach to Exploring the Origins of Chinese Civilization. Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3096-6_13
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