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816Judith Butler's Reading of the Sartrian Bodies and the Cartesian GhostsModern Philosophy 1 85-91. 2009.American philosopher Zhu Dien • Ba Tele that for granted with a series of related discussion, and while there are of a fixed body of the material. Bate Le read de Beauvoir's "Second Sex" that this is not Sartre's "Being and Nothingness" women's issues or situations in the application. De Beauvoir said that consciousness exists in which a person's body, and in the cultural vein, the participation in the formation of a person's gender. Ba Tele think understanding the philosophy of Sartre's body, i…Read more
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134Female Bodily Aesthetics, Politics, and Feminine Ideals of Beauty in ChinaIn Peg Zeglin Brand (ed.), Beauty Matters, Indiana University Press. pp. 169-196. 2000.A long and scholarly piece by Eva Kitt WahMan covers the history of Chinese conventionsgoverning female “beauty” from Confuciusthrough Maoism to the present day. Classicalmanuals provide highly specific requirements forcourtesans and concubines. The shrunken, pulpyappendages produced by foot-binding practiceswere regarded as the most sexually stimulatingfeatures of the female body. In 1949, following theinauguration of the Communist regime, womenwere expected to shun ornament and make-up, tohave…Read more
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60Contemporary Feminist Body Theories and Mencius’s Ideas of Body and MindJournal of Chinese Philosophy 27 (2). 2000.
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56A Contemporary Reflection of a Confucian Theory of the BodyThe Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy 7 173-177. 2007.One of the common targets that contemporary feminists are critical of concerning the problem of the body is Rene Descartes' mind and body relation. Feminist scholars can identify at least three lines of investigation of the body in contemporary thought that may be regarded as legacies of the Cartesian view, which treat the body as primarily an object for: 1) the natural sciences, particularly for the life sciences, biology, and medicine; 2) as an instrument or a machine at the disposal of consci…Read more
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43Issues of Contemporary Art and Aesthetics in Chinese ContextSpringer Berlin Heidelberg. 2015.This book discusses how China’s transformations in the last century have shaped its arts and its philosophical aesthetics. For instance, how have political, economic and cultural changes shaped its aesthetic developments? Further, how have its long-standing beliefs and traditions clashed with modernizing desires and forces, and how have these changes materialized in artistic manifestations? In addition to answering these questions, this book also brings Chinese philosophical concepts on aestheti…Read more
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39Chinese philosophy and the suggestion of a matriarchal aestheticsJournal of Chinese Philosophy 23 (4): 453-466. 1996.
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35What Is An Author? A Comparative Study of Søren Kierkegaard and Liu Xie on the Meanings of WritingJournal of Chinese Philosophy 40 (1): 123-142. 2013.This study analyzes Kierkegaard's theory of authorship from a comparative perspective, by using Liu Xie's 劉勰 Chinese literary criticism in Wenxin Diaolong《文心雕龍》as a comparative model. It examines the meaning of an author of literature writing, the spiritual, the aesthetic dimensions and the creative force of compositional literary writing, and finally the goal of writing, as elaborated by these two authors. In Kierkegaard's sense, the quality of writing is mainly tied up with the religious mind …Read more
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33What Does Comparative Philosophy Mean to the Social Existence of a Female Chinese Scholar?Journal of World Philosophies 2 (1). 2017.In this short autobiographical essay, I reflect upon what comparative philosophy could mean to the social existence of a female Chinese scholar like me. I argue that comparative studies have been beneficial to people like me who live in hybrid, ex-colonial spaces. Comparative philosophy has allowed me to develop, and hone, my own understanding of issues pertaining to feminist theory and aesthetics. It has also aided me in recontextualizing and reappropriating some elements of my Confucian backgr…Read more
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27Contemporary Philosophical Aesthetics in China: The Relation between Subject and ObjectPhilosophy Compass 7 (3): 164-173. 2012.This article presents a historical account and philosophical analysis of the development of philosophical aesthetics in China in its Marxist regime, focusing on the relation between subject and object. It enters into the picture of the search for new philosophical aesthetics in Marxist China and engages the related debates and reforms. The representing four schools of aesthetics in the early decades of the new China are introduced, which were led by Gao Ertai, Cai Yi, Zhu Guangqin and Li Zehou. …Read more
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17Female Bodily Aesthetics, Politics, and Feminine Ideals of Beauty in ChinaIn Peg Zeglin Brand (ed.), Beauty Matters, Indiana University Press. pp. 169-196. 2000.
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16Comparative Everyday Aesthetics: East-West Studies in Contemporary Living (edited book)Amsterdam University Press. 2023.Leading international scholars present analysis and case studies from different cultural settings, East and West, exploring aesthetic interest and experience in our daily lives at home, in workplaces, using everyday things, in our built and natural environments, and in our relationships and communities. A wide range of views and examples of everyday aesthetics are presented from western philosophical paradigms, from Confucian and Daoist aesthetics, and from the Japanese tradition. All indicate u…Read more
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14Reclaiming the Body: Francis Bacon's Fugitive Bodies and Confucian Aesthetics on Bodily ExpressionContemporary Aesthetics 2. 2004.
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12A Critical Reflection on a Suggested Return to Aesthetic Experience in Socialist ChinaThe Journal of Aesthetic Education 35 (4): 47. 2001.
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11Beauty and the State: Female Bodies as State Apparatus and Recent Beauty Discourses in ChinaIn Peg Brand Weiser (ed.), Beauty Unlimited, Indiana University Press. pp. 368-384. 2013.The global economy has an impact on female beauty today, regardless of the multicultural and historical factors in its formation and construction, resulting in monolithic crazes in women's fashion and appearance. but female beauty in china has been greatly contested with China's turbulent modern history, and this contestation deserves serious consideration, together with the politics by which the Chinese state apparatus has promoted and regulated female beauty. I argue that certain factors have …Read more
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10This book is a collection of articles on different aspects of university education in China since the late nineteenth century, addressing how far the ideal of modern university education, which has gradually been developed in the West since the age of European Enlightenment, was adopted or transformed by Chinese universities
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10This book gathers research and writings that reflect on traditional and current global issues related to art and aesthetics, gender perspectives, body theories, knowledge and learning. It illustrates these core dimensions, which are bringing together philosophy, tradition and cultural studies and laying the groundwork for comparative research and dialogues between aesthetics, Chinese philosophies, Western feminist studies and cross-cultural thought. Pursuing an interdisciplinary approach, the b…Read more
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10A Contemporary Reflection of a Confucian Theory of the BodyThe Proceedings of the Twenty-First World Congress of Philosophy 7 173-177. 2007.One of the common targets that contemporary feminists are critical of concerning the problem of the body is Rene Descartes' mind and body relation. Feminist scholars can identify at least three lines of investigation of the body in contemporary thought that may be regarded as legacies of the Cartesian view, which treat the body as primarily an object for: 1) the natural sciences, particularly for the life sciences, biology, and medicine; 2) as an instrument or a machine at the disposal of consci…Read more
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9Rethinking Art and Values: A Comparative Revelation of the Origin of Aesthetic Experience (from the Neo-Confucian Perspectives)Filozofski Vestnik 25 (2). 2004.In his article, "The End of Aesthetic Experience" (1997) Richard Shusterman studies the contemporary fate of aesthetic experience, which has long been regarded as one of the core concepts of Western aesthetics till the last half century. It has then expanded into an umbrella concept for aesthetic notions such as the sublime and the picturesque. I agree with Shusterman that aesthetic experience has become the island of freedom, beauty, and idealistic meaning in an otherwise cold materialistic and…Read more
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7Bodies in China: Philosophy, Aesthetics, Gender, and PoliticsSUNY Press. 2017.Bodies in China uses Chinese philosophy to reframe Western scholarship on gender, body, and aesthetics. Does Confucianism rule out the capacity of women as moral subjects and hence as aesthetic subjects? Do forms of Chinese philosophy contribute or correspond to patriarchal Confucian culture? Can Chinese philosophy provide alternative perspectives for Western feminist scholars? The first section considers theoretical and philosophical discussions of Western traditions and how the ideas offered b…Read more
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2Eksperimentalno slikarstvo in slikarske teorije v kolonialnem Hong Kongu : premislek o kulturni identitetiFilozofski Vestnik 17 (2). 1996.Članek nudi kratek opis zanimive zgodovine slikarstva in slikarskih teorij v hitro razvijajočem se Hong Kongu od l. 1940 do l. 1980, tako da poudari delo in estetiko večih reprezentativnih lokalnih kitajskih slikarjev in umetniških smeri. Ta oris zgodovine prikazuje iskanje kulturne identitete in različne drže med kitajskimi slikarji, ki so bíli boj med moderniziranimi in zahodnimi vplivi v umetnosti ter svojim kitajskim izročilom. Avtorica primerja to slikarstvo z držami mlajše generacije osemd…Read more
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Comparative Everyday Aesthetics: Studies in Contemporary Living (edited book)Amsterdam University Press. 2023.
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""The notion of" Orientalism" in the modernization movement of Chinese painting of Hong Kong artists in 1960s: The case of Hon Chi-FunFilozofski Vestnik 22 (2): 161-178. 2001.
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