From Classical to Modern (The National Issue of Chinese Literary and Art Aesthetics)

Author: Tan Haozhe, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2003-12-01
Features: This book aims to conduct an in-depth scholarly study of the ideological origins, theoretical contributions, and modern value of Chinese classical aesthetic thought with rich national characteristics, from the perspective of modern humanities and the current needs of discipline construction in literary and artistic aesthetics, in order to achieve the purpose of "making the old serve the new." The included essays are: "Prehistoric Chinese Culture and the Formation of Aesthetic Psychology (Lu Xiaohui)," "A New Interpretation of Laozi and Zhuangzi's Classical Ecological Existential Aesthetics (Zeng Fanren)," "On the Fusion of Confucianism and Taoism in Classical Chinese Aesthetics and Art (Ma Longqian)," "On the Original Consciousness of Ancient Chinese Poetic Aesthetics (Jiang Shuzhuo)," "Buddhist Realm Theory and Ancient Chinese Literary Realm Theory (Cheng Xiangzhan)," "The Chinese View of Nature—Exploring the National Aesthetic Psychology (Liang Yiru)," "All Things: Reflections on Chinese and Western Nature (Wolfgang Iser)," "On the Nationalization of Aesthetics and the Issue of Local Identity (Tan Haozhe)," "Clarification and Transformation: Local Academic Resources and the Modern Construction of Chinese Aesthetics (Wang Desheng)," "Kang Youwei's Theory of Artistic Conception and Realm Theory (Cheng Xiangzhan)," etc.