Cross Cultural Reflections On Chinese Aesthetics Gender Embodiment And Learning

Author : Eva Kit Wah Man
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811502102
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cross-Cultural Reflections on Chinese Aesthetics, Gender, Embodiment and Learning written by Eva Kit Wah Man and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ​This 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 book also integrates philosophical enquiries with cultural anthropology and contextual studies. As implied in the title, the main methodologies are cross-cultural and comparative studies, which touch on performances in art and aesthetics, social existence and education, and show that philosophical enquiries, aesthetical representation and gender politics are simultaneously historical, living and contextual. The book gathers a wealth of cross-cultural reflections on philosophical aesthetics, gender existence and cultural traditions. The critical thinking within will benefit undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in the area of comparative philosophies. It blends academic rigor with personal reflection, which is a critical practice in feminist philosophy itself.

Author : Georgina Barton
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 981197750X
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aesthetic Literacies in School and Work written by Georgina Barton and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-02-02 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues the importance of aesthetic literacies in learning and teaching in schools for future work. The study of aesthetics is critical in today’s learning, due to the increasingly complex ways in which we communicate meaning, such as through the presentation of texts and objects. The book provides educators, pre-service teachers, and students an in-depth understanding of aesthetic literacies in innovative spaces, including in philosophical literature, environmental spaces, curricula and classrooms. Using various theoretical frames from both the arts and literacy fields, this book shares relevant pedagogies, theorisations and contexts where aesthetic literacies are at the core of learning. It emphasises how improved knowledge of aesthetics and quality experiences in beauty are vital in aiding students and young children develop the necessary resilience and tolerance needed in today’s uncertain world.

Author : Eva Kit Wah Man
Publisher : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
ISBN 13 : 9629967855
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bodies in China written by Eva Kit Wah Man and published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to engage Chinese philosophy to reframe existing Western scholarship in the fields of gender, body, and aesthetics. The assembled essays cover traditional and current global issues related to Chinese female bodies by addressing the following questions: Does Confucianism rule out the capacity of women as moral subjects, and hence, as aesthetic subjects? Do forms of Chinese philosophy in some ways contribute or correspond to the patriarchal Confucian culture? In what ways can Chinese philosophy provide alternative perspectives sought by Western feminist scholars? Professor Man uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore feminist philosophy through the issues of the body, aesthetical representation and gender politics, which are simultaneously historical and contextual. The first section of the book, "Body Discourses in Chinese Philosophy", brings in theoretical and philosophical discussions of Western traditions such as those of Plato, Descartes, and Kant, to examine their views on body and mind and how the Chinese philosophical ideas offered by Confucians and Daoists provide alternative body ontologies for critical feminist practices. The second section, "Chinese Bodies, Aesthetics and Art", reviews female aesthetical representations in classical traditional Chinese works ranging from The Books of Songs, women's embroidery, sexuality and suggested ways of kissing, and the contemporary body art represented by the controversial body artist He Chengyao. These chapters demonstrate the intertwining relationship among body, sexuality, aesthetics and the ascribed gendered roles in social environments. The third section, "Chinese Bodies and Gender Matters", aims to unfold the changing perceptions of femininity from imperial China to contemporary China. Case studies touch on female body ideals in the literary fantasies in late Ming, in the iron girls in Communist China, and in the Olympics Hoopla at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. This section also discusses Hong Kong women's fashion in the 1960s and how their bodies were shaped by colonial politics. Finally, the subject of sex and emotion in the development of ethical discourse of Chinese female sex workers from late Qing to contemporary society is discussed alongside the impact of the global economy on female beauty today. Overall, this book discusses new conceptual models that feminist scholars are using to displace dualism and emancipate notions of the body from Cartesian mechanistic models and metaphors. The different chapters review traditional and contemporary alternatives to understanding female bodies in Chinese society. Eva Man is professor of humanities and creative writing at Hong Kong Baptist University. She publishes widely in comparative aesthetics, feminist philosophy, cultural studies, art, and cultural criticism.

Author : Michelle Ying Ling Huang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781443859097
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reception of Chinese Art Across Cultures written by Michelle Ying Ling Huang and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reception of Chinese Art Across Cultures is a collection of essays examining the ways in which Chinese art has been circulated, collected, exhibited and perceived in Japan, Europe and America from the fourteenth century to the twenty-first. Scholars and curators from East Asia, Europe and North America jointly present cutting-edge research on cultural integration and aesthetic hybridisation in relation to the collecting, display, making and interpretation of Chinese art and material culture. Stimulating examples within this volume emphasise the Western understanding of Chinese pictorial art, while addressing issues concerning the consumption of Chinese art and Chinese-inspired artistic productions from early times to the contemporary period; the roles of collector, curator, museum and auction house in shaping the taste, meaning and conception of art; and the art and cultural identity of the Chinese diaspora in a global context. This book espouses a multiplicity of aesthetic, philosophical, socio-cultural, economic and political perspectives, and encourages academics, students, art and museum practitioners to re-think their encounters with the objects, practices, people and institutions surrounding the study of Chinese art and culture in the past and the present.

Author : Eva Kit Wah Man
Publisher : Suny Press
ISBN 13 : 9781438466361
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bodies in China written by Eva Kit Wah Man and published by Suny Press. This book was released on 2019-01-02 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engages with Chinese philosophy to offer new conceptual models for reframing gender, bodies, and aesthetics.

Author : Zehou Li
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Path of Beauty written by Zehou Li and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a must-read book about the philosophy of Chinese art and literature. Using examples from a broad range of Chinese art, including bronzes, pottery, fabrics, and paintings, the author brings this marvelous culture into focus and guides his readers in how to examine and interpret Chinese art.

Author : Huai Bao
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781315164625
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cross-Gender China written by Huai Bao and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cross-Gender China, the outcome of more than twenty years of theatrical and sociological research, deconstructs the cultural implications of cross-gender performance in today's China. The recent revival in male-to-female cross-gender nandan performance in Chinese theatre raises a multitude of questions: it may suggest new gender dynamics, or new readings of old aesthetic traditions in new socio-cultural contexts. Interrogating the positions of the gender being performed and the gender doing the performing, this volume gives a broad cultural account of the contexts in which this unique performance style has found new life.

Author : Eva Kit Wah Man
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9783662516508
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Issues of Contemporary Art and Aesthetics in Chinese Context written by Eva Kit Wah Man and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-22 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 aesthetics into dialogue with those of the West, making an important contribution to the fields of art, comparative aesthetics and philosophy.

Author : Li Zehou
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Path of Beauty written by Li Zehou and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Zehou Li
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780824870706
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Chinese Aesthetic Tradition written by Zehou Li and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Touching on all aspects of artistic activity, Li demonstrates the fundamental role of aesthetics in the development of the cultural & psychological structures in Chinese culture that define 'humanity'.