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The Process of Beauty Author: Li Zehou Publisher: People's Literature Publishing House
The Process of Beauty Author: Li Zehou Publisher: People's Literature Publishing House
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Introduction · · · · · ·
This book is a classic work of Chinese aesthetics. It embodies the author Mr. Li Zehou's many years of research. He presents the Chinese people's feelings about beauty from ancient times to the present in a delicate and transparent way. With exquisite illustrations, this book shows China's magnificent aesthetic process in a more concrete way.
The Course of Beauty is a big book (or should we say several big books), a history of Chinese aesthetics and art, a history of Chinese literature, a history of Chinese philosophy, and a history of Chinese culture. - Feng Youlan
How many works like this can there be? They are rare. To complete such a "beautiful journey" with a length of more than 100,000 words, with a broad vision and unstoppable momentum, and to be able to achieve "the vastness of the heavenly net, nothing can escape it", to be meticulous where it should be meticulous, to linger where it should be lingering, to be meticulous and logical, and to touch the spiritual history of an ancient civilized country in a seemingly casual tour, is truly something that can only be done with great talent.
The book "The Process of Beauty" is really written with vigor and talent. The title alone is extraordinary: Flying dragons and dancing phoenixes. Bronze gluttons. The style of Wei and Jin dynasties, the sound of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, not to mention that there is a brilliant movement every few pages. In fact, "The Process of Beauty" can be regarded as a work of art. It fully demonstrates Li Zehou's artistic charm. - Yi Zhongtian
About the Author · · · · · ·
Li Zehou, a famous contemporary philosopher, aesthetician and thinker, was born in Changsha, Hunan Province in June 1930 and graduated from the Department of Philosophy of Peking University in 1954. He was a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a member of the International Academy of Philosophy in Paris, and an honorary doctor of humanities from Colorado College in the United States. Li Zehou's works such as "The Process of Beauty" and "On the History of Modern Chinese Thought" have a great influence and are followed by many people. He is known as the "young mentor". In the 1990s, Li Zehou lived in the United States and published works such as "Reading the Analects Today", "New Dreams of the Century", and "Five Essays on Jimao", which gave a heavy humanistic care to China's future social construction. His views such as "subjective practice philosophy", "psychological accumulation theory", "emotional ontology", "contingency (fate)", "post-Marxism", and "theory of the four stages of Confucianism" have had a great impact on China's social culture and thought in recent decades. After being elected as a member of the Paris Academy of Philosophy in 1988, Li Zehou’s works were selected for inclusion in the second edition of the authoritative and rigorous Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism published in 2010. His works were selected along with the representative works of great philosophers such as Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Lessing, and Hegel. Li Zehou is the only non-Western philosopher in the three categories of aesthetics, Marxism, and body theory.
Table of contents · · · · · ·
2. Bronze Taotie 1. Fierce beauty 2. Art of lines 3. Disintegration and liberation 3. Pre-Qin rational spirit 1. Complementarity between Confucianism and Taoism 2. Principles of Fu, Bi, and Xing 3. Architectural art 4. Romanticism of Chu and Han 1. Qu Sao tradition 2. A world full of dazzling array 3. Momentum and simplicity 5. Style of Wei and Jin Dynasties The theme of one person 2. Self-awareness of literature 3. Ruan Ji and Tao Qian 6. Buddha's worldly tolerance 1. Les Miserables 2. Illusory odes 3. Going to the secular 7. Sounds of the prosperous Tang Dynasty 1. Youth, Li Bai 2. Musical beauty 3. Du Fu's poems, Yan's characters, and Korean characters 8. The meaning of rhyme 1. Literature and art of the mid-Tang Dynasty 2. Internal contradictions 3. The significance of Su Shi 9. The artistic conception of landscape in Song and Yuan Dynasties 1. Origin 2. "The state of no self"
3. Fidelity to details and poetic pursuit 4. "My own realm"
10. Literary and artistic trends in the Ming and Qing Dynasties 1. Citizen literature 2. Romantic torrent 3. From sentimental literature to Dream of the Red Chamber
Conclusion on Painting and Crafts
