EAS1229H: Topics in Chinese Aesthetics

This seminar will focus on various topics of Chinese Aesthetic Studies, such as, the aesthetic categories, the Aesthetic experiences in Chinese culture, the relation between Dao and Nature in landscape painting, the question of allegory. In the age of globalization, many main ideas about beauty and art in Chinese culture even arose some deep inspirations to the creation of Art avant-garde in the contemporary. Via the training of philosophical reflection on the themes of classical Chinese Aesthetics, this course will not only provide students the knowledge about the beauty of Chinese Art, but also add to their capacity of research on the discrimination of the aesthetic values of Chinese culture, even their continuation, persistence or change in our time.

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