The Chinese Aesthetic Tradition Chandler, Marthe
Philosophy East and West,
01/2012, Volume:
62, Issue:
1
Book Review, Journal Article
Peer reviewed
According to the Confucian-based Chinese tradition, the noumenon is not nature, for a universe without humanity is meaningless. From the point of view of an individual, the noumenon is the ...social-cognitive-emotional structure required for us to have any human experience, and thus is a priori.8 On the other hand, human nature, the human noumenon, is created by the sedimented cultural traditions and practices of individual people.9 The Chinese Aesthetic Tradition presents a nuanced and richly detailed account of how the practices - poetry, painting, philosophy, and lived experiences - of a group of philosophers and poets determined the Chinese aesthetic tradition.
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Maija Bell Samei has done a wonderful job translating The Chinese Aesthetic Tradition, a book that engages with a wide range of historical, literary, and artistic materials. Because of such an ...elegant, accurate, and extremely fluent translation, both specialist and nonspecialist readers are able to understand the depth of Li Zehou's thought as well as enjoy the breadth and scope of the source material the book covers.
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Review(s) of: Postsocialism and Cultural Politics: China in the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century, by Xudong Zhang, Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2008. x + 346 pp. US$89.95 (hardcover), ...US$24.95 (paperback). Review(s) of: Postsocialist Modernity: Chinese Cinema, Literature, and Criticism in the Market Age, by Jason McGrath, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008. xiv + 300 pp. US$60.00 (hardcover).
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Review(s) of: The Magnitude of Ming: Command, Allotment, and Fate in Chinese Culture, Christopher Lupke (ed), Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2005. xii + 377 pp.
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