Spirit of Chinese Poetics

Title: Spirit of Chinese Poetics

Author: Wang Keping

ISBN: 9787119053844

Edition: English

Publishing Date: 2008-06

Publishing House: Foreign Languages Press

Cover: P   Page: 255   Format: 16mo   

Introduction:

This book looks into some highlights of Chinese poetics from a historical and trans-cultural perspective. It carries out an in-depth discussion of such thematic topics as Confucius' expectation of poetry in education, Mozi and Xunzi on musical functions, Liu Xie's critical illumination of poetic styles, Zhu Xi' s moralistic view of poetry, the poetic wisdom in the zen enlightenment, Wang Guowei's aesthetic criticism of the poetic state par excellence, and Lu Xun's sublime poetics of māratic type. All this is conducted through textual and contextual analysis in order to facilitate a new rediscovery and creative synthesis.

Author:

Wang Keping （Keping Wang，b.1955， M.A. Ph.D.） is a research　fellow of Chinese Academy　of Social Sciences，university　professor of Beijing International　Studies University，visiting fellow　at St。Anne’s College of the　University of Oxford （2000）， and　an honorary member of Olympic　Center for Philosophy and Culture　under the University of Athens。His main writings in English　include Ethos of Chinese Culture，Chinese Philosophy on Life，and　The Classic of the Dao：A New　Investigation。His major works in　Chinese include Interpretation and　Reflection，Plato’s Poetics in the　Republic， Towards A Transcultural　Aesthetics，and Aesthetic Traveling。Two of his books were awarded　Beijing Municipal Prize in 2004　and 2006 respectively