Article Digest: "Anger's Role in Society"
Santangelo, P. (2015). 19 Anger and Rage in Traditional Chinese Culture. Discourses of Anger in the Early Modern Period, 458–485. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004300835_020 (Article available here .) In his essay, Santangelo does two things: first, he presented the concepts of "anger" in traditional Chinese literature and second, he situated these concepts in the patriarchal, Confucian, traditional Chinese society. The former is an exploration of the different words that the Chinese language uses to encapsulate varying concepts of "anger". Santangelo presented four basic words: nù , or the common concept of anger; qì , or passive irritation; nǎo , or building annoyance; and chēn , or getting angry quickly. (Note that I will not supply the given Chinese characters in the article because I am afraid I might misuse them.) Three other words are enumerated: fèn , or righteous indignation; yuàn , or resentment; and hèn , or hatred. The definitions of these terms are co...