Abstract
The rise of modern Chinese aesthetics is largely attributed to transcultural reflections and transformational creation. The interaction between East–West traditions is fruitful in theoretical development against the background of cultural innovation and intercultural communication. Historically, the process undergoes such major stages as fragmentary account, systematic framing, intellectual enlightenment, transcultural rediscovery, theoretical incorporation, and comprehensive praxis. Eventually, the application of transcultural strategy ends with new and creative theories, the most typical of which are known as the poetic state par excellence and art as sedimentation.
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Notes
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This book is entitled in Chinese as Wen yi xi li xue (文艺心理学), which is an introduction to Western theories but illustrated through Chinese materials in many cases.
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This essay is titled in Chinese as Mo luo shi li shuo (摩罗诗力说).
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Tang Tao, Lu Xun de mei xue si xiang [Lu Xun’s Aesthetic Thought] (Beijing: Renmin Wenxue Press, 1984), p. 67.
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This essay is titled in Chinese as Wen hua pian zhi lun (文化偏执论).
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Lu Xun, Wen hua pian zhi lun [On the Ideological lopsidedness in Culture].
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Lu Xun, Moluo shi li shuo [The Theories of Māratic Poetic Power], 6th section.
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The essay is titled in Chinese as Lun zheng le yan kan (论睁了眼看).
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Lu Xun, Moluo shi li shuo [The Theories of Māratic Poetic Power], 3rd section.
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Fang Dongmei, Sheng ming qing diao yu mei gan [Taste of Life and Sense of Beauty],
in Huang Kejian (ed.), Fang Dongmei ji [Selected Works of Thomé Fang] (Beijing: Qunyan Press, 1993), pp. 355–357.
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Fang Dongmei, Sheng ming qing diao yu mei gan [Taste of Life and Sense of Beauty],
in Huang Kejian (ed.), Fang Dongmei ji [Selected Works of Thomé Fang], p. 366.
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Fang Dongmei, Zhe xue san hui [Three Kinds of Philosophical Wisdom], in Jiang Guobao & Zhou Yazhou (ed.s), Fang Dongmei xin ru xue lun zhu ji yao [Thomé Fang’s Selected Writings on Modern Confucianism](Beijing: Zhongguo Guangbo Dianshi Press, 1993), p. 96.
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Ibid., p. 99.
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Ibid., p. 103.
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Fang Dongmei, Zhe xue san hui [Three Kinds of Philosophical Wisdom], in Jiang Guobao & Zhou Yazhou (ed.s), Fang Dongmei xin ru xue lun zhu ji yao [Thomé Fang’s Selected Writings on Modern Confucianism], pp. 105–106.
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Zhu Guangqian, Shi lun [A Study of Chinese Poetics] (Chongqing: Guomin tushu chubanshe, 1943; revised version, Beijing: Zhonghua Shuju, 1948).
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Mou Zongsan, Zhong xi zhe xue zhi hui tong shi si jiang [Fourteen Lectures on the Transformation Between Chinese and Western Philosophies] (Shanghai: Shanghai Guji Chubanshe, 1998), pp. 5-6.
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Teng Shouyao, Yi shu yu chuang hua [Art and Creation] (Xi’an: Shanxi Normal University Press, 2002).
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Wang Guowei, Ran Jian ci hua [Wang Guowei’s Comments on Ci Poetry], see Wang Kuo-wei’s Jen-chien Tzi-hua: A Study in Chinese Literary Criticism (trans. Adele Austin Rickett, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1977), 43. The translation is modified in this quotation.
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His catchphrase in Chinese is shi ren zi yu yu zhou ren shen (诗人之于宇宙人生). I find it associated with his penname Ren Jian (人间/Human World), which is also used for the title of his Ren Jian ci hua [Discourse on Ci Poetry]. Cf. Wang Keping, Jing jie “wei tan qi ben” de chen ceng yi wei [The Deep Implications of Jingjie as the Poetic State], in The Journal of Academic Monthly (Xueshu yuekan), No. 3, 2010.
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I. Kant, Critique of Judgment (trans. J. B. Bernard, New York: Hafner Press, 1951), pp. 156–157.
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Wang Keping, Chinese Culture of Intelligence, pp. 357–359.
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Zehou Li, “The Stratification of Form and Primitive Sedimentation,” from his Four Essays on Aesthetics: Toward a Global View, in Vincent B. Leithch et al. (ed.s), Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2010), 2nd edition.
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Li Zehou and Jane Cauvel, Four Essays on Aesthetics (Lanham et al.: Lexington Books, 2006), p. 134.
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Li Zehou and Jane Cauvel, Four Essays on Aesthetics, 144. Also see Li Zehou, Meixue si jiang [Four Essays on Aesthetics] (Beijing: Sanlian Bookshop, 1989), p. 205.
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Li Zehou, Meixue si jiang [Four Essays on Aesthetics], pp. 237–238.
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Wang Keping, Chinese Culture of Intelligence, pp. 406–411.
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Ibid., pp. 418–424.
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Wang, K. (2021). The Rise of Modern Chinese Aesthetics. In: Beauty and Human Existence in Chinese Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1714-0_11
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