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The concluding chapter goes beyond the Chinese and Western aesthetic traditions and examines some cases in the cross-cultural efforts to fuse disparate aesthetic ideas into possible global aesthetics. It calls for the replacement of Western-centric and ethnocentric paradigms of critical studies by a humanistic one of fusion made possible by unlimited capabilities of the human faculty and infinite varieties of shared cultural experiences. By advocating more and further efforts to engage in broad and sustained dialogues between different aesthetic traditions, it offers further thoughts on possible ways to open up new avenues to bridging the divides and to move toward world criticism and global aesthetics in the future.
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Gu, M.D. (2021). Conclusion: Toward World Criticism and Global Aesthetics. In: Fusion of Critical Horizons in Chinese and Western Language, Poetics, Aesthetics. Chinese Literature and Culture in the World. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73730-6_10
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