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Zhu Guangqian's Life and Philosophy. An Introduction is Mario Sabattini's last uncompleted work dedicated to the work of Zhu Guangqian, one of the most representative figures of contemporary Chinese aesthetics.
About the author
Mario Sabattini (1944-2017), Emeritus Professor at the Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca' Foscari University at Venice, focused mainly on Zhu Guangqian's aesthetic thought, and poetic in general. He has published extensively in Italian, English and Chinese. He has been a pioneer in the teaching of Thai language in Italy. From 1999 to 2003, Sabattini served as Cultural Counsellor at the Italian Embassy in the People's Republic of China.
Elisa Levi Sabattini (Ph.D. 2006) was professor of Chinese Philology at L'Orientale University at Naples (Italy). She is now affiliated Research Fellow at the Frieberg Center for Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research focuses on Chinese thought and intellectual history of Early China. She is author of several articles and book chapters, both in English and Italian, published for international peer-reviewed journals. She is co-editor together with Paul R. Goldin of Lu Jia's
New Discourses: A Political Manifesto from the Early Han Dynasty (Brill, 2020) and together with Christian Schwermann of
Between Command and Market: Economic Thought and Practice in Early China (Brill, forthcoming).
