Contemporary Chinese aesthetics

✍ Scribed by Blocker, H. Gene; Zhu, Liyuan

• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 362
• Series: Asian thought and culture 17
• Edition: 0
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is a collection of translations of recent work by contemporary Chinese aestheticians. Because of the relative isolation of China until recently, little is known of this rich and ongoing aesthetics tradition in China. Although some of the articles are concerned with the traditional ancient Chinese theories of art and beauty, many are inspired by Western aesthetics, including Marxism, and all are involved in cross-cultural comparisons of Chinese and Western aesthetic traditions

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Table of Contents
Preface vii
Introduction: H. Gene Blocker 1
Comparing Chinese and Western Poetry: Zhu Guangqian 13
The Dearth and Death of Tragedy: Zhu Guangqian 25
Space-consciousness in Chinese Art: Tsung Paihwa 31
The Sense of Beauty: Cai Yi 55
Art Appreciation as Recreation: Wang Zhaowen 93
Aesthetics of the "Musical Records": Jiang Kongyang 103
Zhuangzi and Chan Buddhism: Li Zehou 143
Ancient Chinese Aesthetics: Liu Gangji 179
The Essence of Beauty: Liu Gangji 189
Harmony and Chinese Beauty: Zhou Laixiang 205
Modern Morphology of Aesthetics: Yie Lang 225. Modern Chinese Aesthetics: Yie Lang 239Aesthetic Image and Conception: Yie Lang 253
Art and Image: Hu Jingzhi 267
Chinese Primitive Art: Lin Tonghua 293
Hegel and the "Disintegration of Art": Zhu Liyuan 303
The Function of Literary Criticism: Zhu Liyuan 307
Chinese and Western Realism: Zhu Liyuan 315
Comparative Concepts of Natural Beauty: Chen Wangheng 323
The Essence of Aesthetics: Chen Wangheng 335
The Essence of Art: Chen Wei 343.

✦ Subjects

Aesthetics, Chinese. Aesthetics. PHILOSOPHY -- Aesthetics. Philosophy.