This book introduces traditional and modern aesthetics and arts, comparing the similarities and differences between traditional and modern Chinese aesthetics. It also explores the aesthetic implications of traditional Chinese paintings, and discusses the development of aesthetics throughout history, as well as the changes and improvements in Chinese aesthetics in the context of globalization.

Presents aesthetic thoughts in traditional and contemporary China Compares the similarities and differences between traditional and modern Chinese aesthetics Explores the aesthetic implications of traditional Chinese paintings

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Gao Jianping, Ph.D. in Aesthetics of Uppsala University, Sweden, Research Fellow of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and Professor of Shenzhen University. Currently, he is the President of Chinese Society for Aesthetics, and was served as the President of the International Association of Aesthetics (2013-2016). His representative books include Aesthetics and Art: Traditional and Contemporary China in a Comparative Perspective (English), and L'esprit Esthétique Chinois (French), as well as more than 20 books in Chinese.

Inhalt
To Begin With A Beautiful Line.- The Relationship Between Writing and Painting in Ancient China.- Significance of Analogy-Drawing Between Go and Painting.- Theoretical Significance of Painting as Performance.- Difficulties in Reading Images: Diversity and Internationality in Image Reception.- Who Are True Artists? An Art Élitism in Ancient China.- An Introduction to the Aesthetic Ideas of Confucius.- Man and His Relations with Society and Art: A Case Study of On Music.- The Original Meaning of the Chinese Character for Beauty.- The Aesthetics Craze in China Its Cause and Significance.- Chinese Aesthetics: From 1978 to the present.- The Stories of Three Words.- Chinese Aesthetics in the Context of Globalization.- The Growth and Construction of Cultural Diversity in Cyberspace.- Traditional Culture: Salvation or Revitalization?.- The Beauty of a City: Thoughts from an Ecological Perspective.