Book Information My selection of papers, which had been published for the past 20 years, has been finally published by

The Global-Institutionalized Mind: Crisis and Prospects of Human Sciences/Semiotics 1. The Deterioration of the Current Theoretical Humanities in the Globalization

(a concluding lecture at the Beijing Semiotics Congress, March 28, 2004) You-zheng Li The Center for Comparative Civilization Studies, CASS

Verbal Medium and Constitution of Meaning (The paper was read in he International Conference of Media, Kassel, 1995; it was

(The paper was read in the 5 th IASS Congress, Berkeley and published in Semiotic Around World 1995-96, Vienna )

Epistemological Reflection on Semiotic Approach: Semiotics and the Humanities ——————- * This article was originally prepared for the special issue

EPISTEMOLOGICAL REFLECTION ON SEMIOTIC APPROACHES: – SEMIOTICS AND THE HUMANITIES * The Scientific orientation of one discipline or one field

Interdisciplinary/De-Philosophizing Orientation In Semiotic Theory Today (This outline was published in the Proceedings of the 5th IASS Congress, 1994 Berkeley,

The humanities or human sciences stand between the more empirical-positive social sciences and traditional scholarship. This mixed character nevertheless does