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This book discusses how China's transformations in the last century have shaped its arts and its philosophical aesthetics. For instance, how have political, economic and cultural changes shaped its aesthetic developments? Further, how have its long-standing beliefs and traditions clashed with modernizing desires and forces, and how have these changes materialized in artistic manifestations? In addition to answering these questions, this book also brings Chinese philosophical concepts on aesthetics into dialogue with those of the West, making an important contribution to the fields of art, comparative aesthetics and philosophy.
List of contents
What is an Author?.- Rethinking Art and Values.- Contemporary Philosophical Aesthetics in China: The Relation Between Subject and Object.- A Critical Reflection on a Suggested Return to Aesthetic Experience in Socialist China.- Some Reflections on Confucian Aesthetics and Its Feminist Modalities.- Metaphysics, Corporeality and Visuality: A Developmental and Comparative Review of the Discourses on Chinese Ink Painting.- Experimental Painting and Painting Theories in Colonial Hong Kong (1940-1980): Reflections on Cultural Identity.- The Notion of "Orientalism" in the Modernization Movement of Chinese Painting of Hong Kong Artists in 1960s: The Case of Hon Chi-fun.- Some Reflections on "Feminist Aesthetics": Private/Public? Personal/ Political? Gender/Post-Colonial? --- The Case of Young Women Art in Post-Colonial Hong Kong.- A Museum of Hybridity: The History of the Display of Art in the Public Museum of Hong Kong and Its Implications for Cultural Identities.- The Trinity "Hong Kong- China-The World": The Battle of Cultural Identities as a Form of Hegemony in Art in Postcolonial Hong Kong (since 1990s).- Hong Kong Pavilion at the Venice Biennale As Method: The Case of Lee Kit Rights in Hong Kong.- Influence of Global Aesthetics on Chinese Aesthetics: The Adaption of Moxie and the Case of Dafen Cun.
About the author
Professor Eva Kit Wah Man got her PhD from Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is currently Executive Associate Dean of Graduate School and a professor of the Department of Humanities and Creative Writing at the Hong Kong Baptist University. Her academic research areas include Comparative Aesthetics, Neo-Confucian Philosophy, Feminist Aesthetics and philosophy, Gender Studies and Cultural Studies. She has published numerous referred journal articles, creative prose writings and academic books in Philosophy and Aesthetics. She is also writing columns for Hong Kong Economic Journal on philosophy and art. She hosts cultural programmes for Radio Television Hong Kong. In 2004, she acts as Fullbright Scholar at U C Berkeley, U.S. She is appointed as the Association of Marquette University Women (AMUW) women chair of Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 2009-2010. She is an active member of the American Society for Aesthetics, International Association of Aesthetics and the Chinese Association of Aesthetics
Summary
This book discusses how China’s transformations in the last century have shaped its arts and its philosophical aesthetics. For instance, how have political, economic and cultural changes shaped its aesthetic developments? Further, how have its long-standing beliefs and traditions clashed with modernizing desires and forces, and how have these changes materialized in artistic manifestations? In addition to answering these questions, this book also brings Chinese philosophical concepts on aesthetics into dialogue with those of the West, making an important contribution to the fields of art, comparative aesthetics and philosophy.
