Gao Jianping Bücher

The authors of this book are GAO Jianping, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and the members of the team he leads. The main part of the text, divided into eleven chapters, outlines the essential lines and traits of aesthetic thought: harmonic beauty (harmony achieved through rites and music), gentleness and affection (poetic thought), joy of living (principle of the universe's mutations), nature as a path to follow (aesthetics among Taoists), living inspiration and the resonance of style (models to follow in art), writing and the Way (literary spirit from the Qin to the Song dynasties), image and its charm (poetic statues), the essence of pictorial art ("dragon meridians" and works beyond aura), the customs of the time and popular taste (art and literature from the Song dynasty to contemporary times), and new trends over the past century (influences from the West).