Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Chinese Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art

Marcello Ghilardi is Associate Professor of Aesthetics in the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology at the University of Padova, Italy.Hans-Georg Moeller is Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Macau in Macau SAR, China.

This major contribution to the study of Chinese aesthetics and philosophy of art, with its in-depth and slidingly readable essays, successfully provide the interpretative context necessary to outline an exhaustive overview of aesthetic theories and concepts and their application to different artistic practices. It sets itself as an invaluable resource in a wide variety of different cultural contexts.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction, Marcello Ghilardi and Hans-Georg MoellerPart I. Aesthetic Theories1. A Sketch of Chinese Aesthetics, Wang Kepin2. Beauty Lies in the Image. Endowing Fundamental Theories of Aesthetics with Chinese Characteristics, Ye Lang3. A Cosmological Aestheticism: The Interpretive Context for Confucian Role Ethics. Reading the Cosmology of the Book of Changes as an Aestheticism, Roger Ames 4. 'Living and Dead Rules'. The Role of Rules in Chinese Aesthetics, Karl-Heinz PohlPart II. Aesthetic Concepts5. Defining Mindscape (yijing): Extension, Intension and Beyond, Peng Feng6. On the Notion of Xiang (“Image-Phenomenon”) in Landscape Ink Painting, Marcello Ghilardi7. Nature as Not-yet-existing Beauty, Xia Kejun8. Some Aesthetic and Artistic Categories in Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, Yolaine Escande9. What is “The Aestheticization of Everyday Life”?, Zhou XianPart III: Aesthetic Practices and Exercises10. The Aesthetics of Music in the Ethical Discussion in Early China, Elisa Levi Sabattini11. The Mechanics of Change. The Aesthetics of Chinese Ceramics in the Northern Song (960-1127) and Early Jin (1127-1234) Dynasties, Sabrina Rastelli12. New Theatre and New Drama: Chinese Aesthetic Modernity through the Drama Activities in the Early 20th Century, Li Kelin13. The Aesthetics of the Grotesque in Modern Chinese Narrative, Nicoletta Pesaro14. The Role of Stone in the Chinese Rock Garden, Graham Parkes15. Aesthetics in Asian Martial Arts, Barry AllenGlossaryList of ContributorsAnnotated Essential BibliographyIndex