Whenever I go to a Chinese massage place, I am fascinated by the charts with arrows pointing to parts of the body, internal and external. Apart from meridians and so forth, there seem to be so many more labels for body parts than there are names for them in English. Parts of the feet, for instance.

Our concept of our own bodies is shaped by the naming process we learn in our own language. It begins as a small child with parts of the face, ('where