Abstract In reflecting on the crisis of modernity, Nietzsche, Merleau-
Ponty, and Shusterman, from their new points of view, subverted Spirit-Flesh
Dualism, which originated from Greek philosophy. The “body” received more
attention as a popular topic of research, which became known as the “body
view”. The body view attracted the attention of scholars in China in the late
20th century. However, while this approach originated in Western academia,
Chinese people have paid attention to body problems since ancient times.
Scholars from mainland China, including Zhou Yuchen, Chen Lisheng, Zhang
Zailin, Chen Xia, Ye Qiugui, and Qi Linhua, and from Taiwan, including Yang
Rubin, Huang Junjie, and Cai Biming, used traditional Chinese culture as a
basis to explain and expand the body view. When Chinese scholars adapted the
Western body view into Chinese body view primarily in three aspects. First,
aims. The Chinese body view try to use studies and theories from the West to
explain the traditional Chinese concept of the body concept in modern words.
Second, the Chinese body view focuses more on studying the relation between
body and mind, or between body and nature. Third, self-cultivation becomes
an essence word in Chinese study of the body, meaning that compared to the
West, the Chinese body view emphasizes the practices of the body view.

Keywords Chinese body view, western body view, variation, traditional
Chinese culture self-cultivation