Chinese Aesthetics : : The Ordering of Literature, the Arts, and the Universe in the Six Dynasties /

Chinese Aesthetics : : The Ordering of Literature, the Arts, and the Universe in the Six Dynasties / / Zong-qi Cai.

This singular work presents the most comprehensive and nuanced studies available in any Western language of Chinese aesthetic thought and practice during the Six Dynasties (A.D. 220-589). Despite a succession of dynastic and social upheavals, the literati preoccupied themselves with both the sensuou...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
VerfasserIn:
Cai, Zong-qi,
MitwirkendeR:
Bush, Susan,
Cai, Zong-qi,
Chang, Kang-i Sun,
Egan, Ronald,
Harrist, Robert E.,
Huntington, Rania,
Li, Wai-yee,
Lin, Shuen-fu,
Mair, Victor H.,
Martin, François,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2004]
©2004
Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue: A Historical Overview of Six Dynasties Aesthetics
  • Part I: Images and Representations: Painting, Calligraphy, and Garden Construction
  • 1. Replication and Deception in Calligraphy of the Six Dynasties Period
  • 2. The Essay on Painting by Wang Wei (415-453) in Context
  • 3. Xie He's "Six Laws" of Painting and Their Indian Parallels
  • 4. A Good Place Need Not Be a Nowhere: The Garden and Utopian Thought in the Six Dynasties
  • Part II: Words and Patterns: Poetry and Prose
  • 5. The Unmasking of Tao Qian and the Indeterminacy of Interpretation
  • 6. Crossing Boundaries: Transcendents and Aesthetics in the Six Dynasties
  • 7. Literary Games and Religious Practice at the End of the Six Dynasties: The Baguanzhai Poems by Xiao Gang and His Followers
  • Part III. The Parameters of Six Dynasties Aesthetics: Modes of Discourse
  • 8. Shishuo xinyu and the Emergence of Aesthetic Self- Consciousness in the Chinese Tradition
  • 9. Nature and Higher Ideals in Texts on Calligraphy, Music, and Painting
  • 10. The Conceptual Origins and Aesthetic Significance of "Shen" in Six Dynasties Texts on Literature and Painting
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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