Eastern Classical Beauty: A Comparison of Traditional Aesthetic Consciousness in China and Japan: A Comparison of Traditional Aesthetic Consciousness in China and Japan

Author: Jiang Wenqing
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Publish Date: 2002-09-01
Features: Eastern classical beauty, religious culture and aesthetics of Yunnan's ethnic minorities, Confucianism and Taoism aesthetics and cultural narrative theory and aesthetics, cultural ancient style. This book is divided into 11 chapters. Chapters 1, 2, and 3 focus on the macro influence of Buddhist, Confucian, and Taoist thoughts on Japanese, especially on the classical aesthetic consciousness of Japan; Chapter 4 compares the Book of Songs and "Jiji Ballads," which also has the significance of macro-comparison; Chapters 5 and 6 are studies on the history of Japan's "Mono no aware" aesthetic consciousness and an examination of its historical context; Chapters 8 and 9 are case studies comparing important theoretical concepts of traditional aesthetic consciousness between China and Japan; Chapter 10 provides an evaluation of the development of classical Japanese waka and haiku art; Chapter 11 conducts a comparative study of classical Chinese and Japanese poetry art using textual structural research methods.