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Keywords:: hanzi tuxiang; phenomenology of mind; meta-writing; hanzi-centered turn

Abstract:: Hanzi tuxiang汉字图象（literally graphics of Chinese character）is the meta-writing of the Chinesenation. With its long tradition and great achievements，the study of hanzi now enjoys new possibilities.Contemporary western academic developments，especially the linguistic turn in philosophy and Derrida’sgrammatology，encourage us to review our own study of hanzi and thus attain a deeper understanding. Theidea of hanzi tuxiang comes out as a result of the“ graphic turn” of contemporary cultural studies as well asthe“ literature and language turn” in the Chinese academic circles. Chinese aesthetics needs to realize its ownparticularity，which means a hanzi-centered turn is inevitable with the study of hanzi tuxiang as an importantpart. To build the aesthetics of hanzi tuxiang，we’d better focus on the construction of a theoretic frameworkwhile studying both the aesthetic connotation of the genealogy of different hanzi tuxiang’s as well as theirgeneration and restoration. An examination of the original building process of hanzi is the key to the essencerestorationfor the study of hanzi tuxiang. In this sense，the aesthetics of hanzi tuxiang constitutes an importantapproach to the phenomenological dimension of the spirit of Chinese nation.