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Chinese Aesthetics
The Ordering of Literature, the Arts, and the Universe in the Six Dynasties
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Chinese Aesthetics
The Ordering of Literature, the Arts, and the Universe in the Six Dynasties
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: A Historical Overview of Six Dynasties Aesthetics
- Part I: Images and Representations: Painting, Calligraphy, and Garden Construction
- 1. Replication and Deception in Calligraphy of the Six Dynasties Period
- 2. The Essay on Painting by Wang Wei (415–453) in Context
- 3. Xie He’s “Six Laws” of Painting and Their Indian Parallels
- 4. A Good Place Need Not Be a Nowhere: The Garden and Utopian Thought in the Six Dynasties
- Part II: Words and Patterns: Poetry and Prose
- 5. The Unmasking of Tao Qian and the Indeterminacy of Interpretation
- 6. Crossing Boundaries: Transcendents and Aesthetics in the Six Dynasties
- 7. Literary Games and Religious Practice at the End of the Six Dynasties: The Baguanzhai Poems by Xiao Gang and His Followers
- Part III. The Parameters of Six Dynasties Aesthetics: Modes of Discourse
- 8. Shishuo xinyu and the Emergence of Aesthetic Self- Consciousness in the Chinese Tradition
- 9. Nature and Higher Ideals in Texts on Calligraphy, Music, and Painting
- 10. The Conceptual Origins and Aesthetic Significance of “Shen” in Six Dynasties Texts on Literature and Painting
- List of Contributors
- Index