This book presents the foundations of classical Chinese aesthetic discourse-roughly from
the Bronze Age to the early Middle Ages-with the following animating questions: What is art …

makes him a “sage” is his moral power and what makes him a “saint” is his transcendence
over this-worldly values and his utmost union with the universe. In terms of his …

For anyone working in aesthetics interested in understanding the richness of the Chinese
aesthetic tradition this handbook is the place to start. Comprised of general introductory …

China, with its long-standing civilization and spectacular growth over the past few decades,
has generated intense global interest in its art. Reports of Chinese artworks breaking sales …

" This singular work presents the most comprehensive and nuanced study available in any
Western language of Chinese aesthetic thought and practice during the Six Dynasties (AD …

Professor Teng Shouyao and Professor Wang Keping, whom I have known now for eight
and seven years respectively, have in the many talks we have had during those years made …

This title provides a systematic examination of the philosophy of Chinese art, exploring the
peculiarity of artistic forms and distinctive conceptions and artistic principles of Chinese art …

Chinese aesthetics mainly derives from Confucianism and Taoism. This essay attempts to
revisit the main theories that run through Confucian and Taoist aesthetics in order to make …

This paper is devoted to the discussion of Chinese aesthetics in the last two decades. In the
early 1980s, there was an “aesthetic craze” in China, which endeavoured to develop the …

Chinese art has experienced its most profound metamorphosis since the early 1950s,
transforming from humble realism to socialist realism, from revolutionary art to critical …