Daoist Aesthetics and Western Culture

Author: Ye Weilian
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Publish Date: 2002-08-01
Features: This book is the academic crystallization of the author's lectures at Peking University. The lecture features examining the issue of protecting cultural ecology from the perspective of the current state of globalization, elevating it to the level of protecting natural ecology. He argues that the cultural industry currently covering almost the entire globe operates through materialization, commercialization, and planning cultural activities according to market principles, shaping culture to meet consumer demands, shifting the profit motive into the cultural domain, and mass-producing culturally homogenous products. The book includes content such as Taoist aesthetics, Chinese poetry and American modern poetry, the spirit of Taoism, Zen Buddhism and American avant-garde art, and reflections on globalization—natural ecology and cultural ecology.