Research Catalog

Title

Chinese aesthetics : the ordering of literature, the arts, and the universe in the Six Dynasties / edited by Zong-qi Cai.

Publication

Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

Cai, Zongqi.

Description

vii, 359 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Chinese literature > 220-589 > History and criticism
• Aesthetics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

A historical overview of Six Dynasties aesthetics / Zong-Qi Cai -- Replication and deception in calligraphy of the Six Dynasties period / Robert E. Harrist Jr. -- The essay on painting by Wang Wei (415-453) in context / Susan Bush -- Xie He's 'Six laws' of painting and their Indian parallels / Victor H. Mair -- A good place need not be a nowhere: the garden and utopian thought in the Six Dynasties / Shuen-Fu Lin -- The unmasking of Tao Qian and the indeterminacy of interpretation / Kang-I Sun Chang -- Crossing boundaries: transcendents and aesthetics in the Six Dynasties / Rania Huntington -- Literary games and religious practice at the end of the Six Dynasties: the Baguanzhai poems by Xiao Gang and his followers / François Martin -- Shishuo xinyu and the emergence of aesthetic self-consciousness in the Chinese tradition / Wai-Yee Li -- Nature and higher ideals in texts on calligraphy, music, and painting / Ronald Egan -- The conceptual origins and aesthetic significance of 'shen' in Six Dynasties texts on literature and painting / Zong-Qi Cai.

Call Number

*OVB 04-10092

ISBN

0824827910 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2004004777

OCLC

54537099

Title

Chinese aesthetics : the ordering of literature, the arts, and the universe in the Six Dynasties / edited by Zong-qi Cai.

Imprint

Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2004.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Cai, Zongqi.

Research Call Number

*OVB 04-10092