Chinese aesthetics : the ordering of literature, the arts, and the universe in the Six Dynasties /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Cai, Zongqi
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2004]
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Table of Contents:
  • A historical overview of Six Dynasties aesthetics / Zong-Qi Cai
  • Replication and deception in calligraphy of the Six Dynasties period / Robert E. Harrist Jr.
  • The essay on painting by Wang Wei (415-453) in context / Susan Bush
  • Xie He's 'Six laws' of painting and their Indian parallels / Victor H. Mair
  • A good place need not be a nowhere: the garden and utopian thought in the Six Dynasties / Shuen-Fu Lin
  • The unmasking of Tao Qian and the indeterminacy of interpretation / Kang-I Sun Chang
  • Crossing boundaries: transcendents and aesthetics in the Six Dynasties / Rania Huntington
  • Literary games and religious practice at the end of the Six Dynasties: the Baguanzhai poems by Xiao Gang and his followers / François Martin
  • Shishuo xinyu and the emergence of aesthetic self-consciousness in the Chinese tradition / Wai-Yee Li
  • Nature and higher ideals in texts on calligraphy, music, and painting / Ronald Egan
  • The conceptual origins and aesthetic significance of 'shen' in Six Dynasties texts on literature and painting / Zong-Qi Cai.