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Chinese Culture of Intelligence

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Authors:
  1. Keping Wang

    1. Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China

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  • Offers key insights into how traditional Chinese concepts influence modern day Chinese thinking across the spheres of politics, economics and society

  • Provides a historical perspective on the ideological development of China

  • Explores Chinese poetics and aesthetics with reference to the interaction with Western thinkers

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. A Rediscovery of Heaven-Human Oneness

    • Keping Wang
    Pages 1-23

  3. What Matters Behind Ecumenism?

    • Keping Wang
    Pages 25-46

  4. Harmonization Without Being Patternized

    • Keping Wang
    Pages 47-64

  5. The Dao of Human Existence

    • Keping Wang
    Pages 65-83

  6. A Symbolic Way of Thinking Through Fables

    • Keping Wang
    Pages 85-106

  7. Two Models of Cultivating Wisdom for a Good Life

    • Keping Wang
    Pages 107-133

  8. Poetic Wisdom in Zen Enlightenment

    • Keping Wang
    Pages 135-161

  9. A New Ideal and Transcultural Pursuit

    • Keping Wang
    Pages 163-181

  10. A Transformational Creation of Pragmatic Reason

    • Keping Wang
    Pages 183-215

  11. A Manifold Expectation of Poetry

    • Keping Wang
    Pages 217-234

  12. A Debate on the Function of Music

    • Keping Wang
    Pages 235-251

  13. A Critical Illumination of Poetic Styles

    • Keping Wang
    Pages 253-275

  14. A Moralistic View of Poetry

    • Keping Wang
    Pages 277-301

  15. Between Chinese and Western Aesthetics

    • Keping Wang
    Pages 303-321

  16. Aesthetic Criticism of Transculturality

    • Keping Wang
    Pages 323-359

  17. A Sublime Poetics of Māratic Type

    • Keping Wang
    Pages 361-392

  18. An Escalated Experience of Appreciating Nature

    • Keping Wang
    Pages 393-403

  19. Art as Sedimentation

    • Keping Wang
    Pages 405-424

  20. Correction to: Chinese Culture of Intelligence

    • Keping Wang
    Pages C1-C1
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About this book

​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.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China

    Keping Wang

About the author

Keping Wang is a Fellow of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) where he was head of Aesthetics Section of CASS Institute of Philosophy from 2005 to 2016, philosophy professor of CASS Graduate School, and Professor of Beijing International Studies University where he worked as Director of Institute for Trans-cultural Studies over a decade. Professor Wang is a former visiting fellow of St. Anne’s College of Oxford University (2000), visiting Professor of the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, Sydney University (2010) and Sciences Politiques de Bordeaux (2017). His major writings in Chinese include the Moral Poetics in Plato’s Laws (2015), Plato’s Poetics in the Republic (2005, 2014) and Aesthetics in Tourism (2015), with publications in English including the Rediscovery of Sino-Hellenic Ideas (2016) and Reading the Dao: A Thematic Inquiry (2011).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Chinese Culture of Intelligence

  • Authors: Keping Wang

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3173-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Publishing Co., Ltd. This international edition is exclusively licensed to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. for worldwide distribution outside of China 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-3172-5Published: 25 February 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-3173-2Published: 06 February 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 452

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Non-Western Philosophy, History of China, Asian Culture

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