Chinese Aesthetics
Subtitle: The Ordering of Literature, the Arts, and the Universe in the Six Dynasties
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press; Univ of Hawaii Pr
Published: August 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9780824827915
Subjects: Aesthetics; Literary Criticism; Eastern - General; Philosophy; China; Eastern; Chinese literature; General; 220-589; History and criticism
Description: "This singular work presents the most comprehensive and nuanced study available in any Western language of Chinese aesthetic thought and practice during the Six Dynasties (A.D. 220-589). Despite a succession of dynastic and social upheavals, the literati preoccupied themselves with both the sensuous and the transcendent and strove for cultural dominance. By the end of the sixth century, their reflections would evolve into a sophisticated system of aesthetic discourse characterized by its own rhetoric and concepts." "Chinese Aesthetics will fill a gap in Western sinological studies of the period. It will appeal to scholars and students in premodern Chinese literary studies, comparative aesthetics, and cultural studies and will be a welcome reference to anyone interested in ancient Chinese culture."--BOOK JACKET.