Chinese Culture of Intelligence

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​With the rise of China in the 21st century, this book offers a trans-cultural and thematic study of key Chinese concepts which influence modern day Chinese thinking across the spheres of politics, economics and society. It reflects on the major schools of Chinese thought including Confucianism, Daoism and Zen Buddhism, providing a historical perspective on the ideological development of China in terms of the relationship between man and nature, social ethics, political governance, poetry education, aesthetic criticism and art theory. It also explores primary aspects of Chinese poetics and aesthetics with reference to the interaction between the endogenous theories and their western counterparts. Written by a leader in Chinese Aesthetics against the background of both globalization and glocalization at home and abroad, this is a key read for all those interested in the cultural, philosophical and aesthetic underpinnings of contemporary China. ​ Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii A Rediscovery of Heaven-Human Oneness (Keping Wang)....Pages 1-23 What Matters Behind Ecumenism? (Keping Wang)....Pages 25-46 Harmonization Without Being Patternized (Keping Wang)....Pages 47-64 The Dao of Human Existence (Keping Wang)....Pages 65-83 A Symbolic Way of Thinking Through Fables (Keping Wang)....Pages 85-106 Two Models of Cultivating Wisdom for a Good Life (Keping Wang)....Pages 107-133 Poetic Wisdom in Zen Enlightenment (Keping Wang)....Pages 135-161 A New Ideal and Transcultural Pursuit (Keping Wang)....Pages 163-181 A Transformational Creation of Pragmatic Reason (Keping Wang)....Pages 183-215 A Manifold Expectation of Poetry (Keping Wang)....Pages 217-234 A Debate on the Function of Music (Keping Wang)....Pages 235-251 A Critical Illumination of Poetic Styles (Keping Wang)....Pages 253-275 A Moralistic View of Poetry (Keping Wang)....Pages 277-301 Between Chinese and Western Aesthetics (Keping Wang)....Pages 303-321 Aesthetic Criticism of Transculturality (Keping Wang)....Pages 323-359 A Sublime Poetics of Māratic Type (Keping Wang)....Pages 361-392 An Escalated Experience of Appreciating Nature (Keping Wang)....Pages 393-403 Art as Sedimentation (Keping Wang)....Pages 405-424 Correction to: Chinese Culture of Intelligence (Keping Wang)....Pages C1-C1 Back Matter ....Pages 425-452