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This singular work presents the most comprehensive and nuanced studies available in any Western language of Chinese aesthetic thought and practice during the Six Dynasties (A.D. 220-589). A prologue details the historical context in which Six Dynasties aesthetics arose and sketches out its major stages of development. The ten essays that follow bring fresh perspectives to bear on important writings on literature, music, painting, calligraphy, and gardening. Grounded in close readings of primary texts, they reveal the complex, dynamic interplay between life and art, the sensuous and the metaphysical, and the artistic and the philosophical/religious that lies at the heart of the aesthetic thought and practice of the time.

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Author:   Zong-qi Cai
Publisher:   University of Hawai'i Press
Imprint:   University of Hawai'i Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.717kg
ISBN:  

9780824827915

ISBN 10:   0824827910
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   03 September 2004
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Chinese Aesthetics will easily become the standard work of reference on this subject and period. - Robert Ford Campany, Indiana University; A volume of rare consequence, skillfully opening up for the first time to the English-speaking world a vast terrain of premodern literary and aesthetic activity that is of signal importance. - David D. W. Wang, Columbia University

"""Chinese Aesthetics will easily become the standard work of reference on this subject and period."" - Robert Ford Campany, Indiana University; ""A volume of rare consequence, skillfully opening up for the first time to the English-speaking world a vast terrain of premodern literary and aesthetic activity that is of signal importance."" - David D. W. Wang, Columbia University"""

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