Comparative Everyday Aesthetics

Eva Kit Wah Man is Kiriyama Professor of The Center for Asia and Pacific Studies at University of San Francisco. She is also an Emeritus Professor of Hong Kong Baptist University. She publishes widely in comparative aesthetics, comparative philosophy, woman studies, feminist philosophy, cultural studies, art and cultural criticism. She was named AMUW Endowed Woman Chair Professor of the 100th Anniversary of Marquette University in the US. She was awarded Outstanding Award in Public Services by Home Affairs Bureau of HKSAR. Jeffrey Petts is an independent scholar. He has published work in the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, the Journal of Aesthetic Education, Historical Materialism, and the British Journal of Aesthetics. He also has papers translated and published in Chinese journals, China Book Review, and Tianjin Social Science. His book Aesthetics and Design: Value in Everyday Life is forthcoming from Bloomsbury Academic.

• Foreword: Living with Everyday Objects: Aesthetic and Ethical Practice —Yuriko Saito, Comparative Everyday Aesthetics: An Introduction —Jeffrey Petts and Eva K W Man, Part 1: Living Aesthetically, Dao Aesthetics: Ways of Opening to Sublime Experiences and Transforming Beautifully —Robin R Wang, Everyday Aesthetics of Taking a Walk: With Zhuangzi —Thomas Leddy, Divergence and Rejoining: Reflecting on Chinese-Western Comparative Everyday Aesthetics —Ouyang Xiao, Part 2: Nature and Environment, The Aesthetics of Nature and the Environment: From the Perspective of Comparison between China and the West —Gao Jianping, Cryosphere Aesthetics —Emily Brady, Section 3: Eating and Drinking, Memory's Kitchen: In Search of a Taste —Carolyn Korsmeyer, Chopsticks and the Haptic Aesthetics of Eating —Richard Shusterman, Taking Tea, but Differently: The Chinese Tea Tradition and its European Transformations —Yanping Gao, Part 4: Creative Life, Dô (Dao) in the Practice of Art: Everyday Aesthetic Life in Japan Through the Japanese Tea Ceremony —Tanehisa Otabe, Skill Stories from the Zhuangzi and Arts and Crafts: Aesthetic Fit, Harmony, and Transformation: Toward a Developmental, Comparative Everyday Aesthetics —Jeffrey Petts, Part 5: Technology and Images, Why We Love Our Phones: A Case Study in the Aesthetics of Gadgets —Janet McCracken, Filming the Everyday: Between Aesthetics and Politics —Peng Feng, Images and Reality —John Carvalho, Part 6: Relationships and Communities, Aesthetics in Friendship and Intimacy —Katherine Higgins, Morality and Aesthetical Lives: Real Stories of Two Hong Kong Women —Eva Kit Wah Man, AUTHORS' BIO.