Yasuo, Yuasa. "Image-Thinking and the Understanding of "Being": The Psychological Basis of Linguistic Expression." Philosophy East & West 55, no. 2 (April 2005): 179-208.

Abstract

This essay investigates why and how East Asian thought, particularly Chinese thoughts, has traditionally developed differently from that of Western philosophy by examining the linguistic differences discerned in the Chinese language and Western languages. To accomplish this task, it focuses on the understanding of "being" that relates to the theoretical thinking of the West and the image-thinking of East Asia, while providing a psychological basis for the latter.