LEADER 03231nam 22006015 450 001 9910483243903321 005 20240509000806.0 010 $a9789811617140 010 $a9811617147 024 7 $a10.1007/978-981-16-1714-0 035 $a(CKB)4100000011946302 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6631345 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6631345 035 $a(OCoLC)1255219684 035 $a(DE-He213)978-981-16-1714-0 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011946302 100 $a20210526d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcz#---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBeauty and Human Existence in Chinese Philosophy /$fby Keping Wang 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aSingapore :$cSpringer Nature Singapore :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (337 pages) 311 08$a9789811617133 311 08$a9811617139 327 $aThe Pictographic Character and Totemism -- The Pottery and Bronze art -- Ethos of the Rites-Music Tradition -- Confucian Ideal and Equilibrium Harmony -- Critique of Mohist Utilitarianism -- Daoist Pursuit and Spontaneous Naturalness -- Beyond Poetic Sentimentalism -- Chan Buddhism and Subtle Void -- The Water Allegory and Waterscape -- The Art of Painting Landscape -- The Rise of Modern Chinese Aesthetics -- How-to-live Concern and Fourfold Engagement. 330 $aThis book considers the Chinese conception of beauty from a historical perspective with regard to its significant relation to human personality and human existence. It examines the etymological implications of the pictographic character mei, the totemic symbolism of beauty, the ferocious beauty of the bronzeware. Further on, it proceeds to look into the conceptual progression of beauty in such main schools of thought as Confucianism, Daoism and Chan Buddhism. Then, it goes on to illustrate through art and literature the leading principles of equilibriumharmony, spontaneous naturalness, subtle void and synthetic possibilities. It also offers a discussion of modern change and transcultural creation conducted with particular reference to the theory of the poetic state par excellence (yi jing shuo) and that of art as sedimentation (ji dian shuo). Keping Wang is a Senior Fellow of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), and Emeritus Professor of CASS University.His recent publications are Harmonism as an Alternative (2019), Chinese Culture of Intelligence (2019), and Rediscovery of Sino-Hellenic Ideas (2016). 606 $aPhilosophy, Modern 606 $aArts 606 $aEthnology$zAsia 606 $aCulture 606 $aPhilosophical Traditions 606 $aFine Art 606 $aAsian Culture 615 0$aPhilosophy, Modern. 615 0$aArts. 615 0$aEthnology 615 0$aCulture. 615 14$aPhilosophical Traditions. 615 24$aFine Art. 615 24$aAsian Culture. 676 $a181.11 700 $aWang$b Keping$f1955-$0911284 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910483243903321 996 $aBeauty and human existence in Chinese philosophy$92585698 997 $aUNINA