Topic: Chinese Aesthetics from the Cultural Imagination of Wartime Aesthetics

Lecturer: Jin Lang, Professor of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Science/ Liberal arts College of Chongqing University

Host: Chang Peijie, Deputy Director from School of Liberal Arts, Renmin University of China

Guests: 

Song Shengquan, School of Liberal Arts, Renmin University of China(RUC)

Feng Qing, School of Philosophy, Renmin University of China(RUC)

Luo Yalin, Institute of Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences(CASS)

Wu Jian, School of Arts and Communication, Beijing Normal University(BNU)

Time: 18:00—20:30, Friday, November 1st , 2024

Venue: Room 200, Renwen Building of RUC

Abstract:

Although regarded as having a time-honored history, Chinese Aesthetics is a modern intellectual paradigm which has not existed since ancient times. It is the product of the interaction between "aesthetics" and "China". The cultural imagination of wartime aesthetics, as a common interest in the writings of Zhu Guangqian, Zong Baihua, Li Changzhi and others, not only contributed to the culmination of the interaction, but also to the birth of the intellectual paradigm of Chinese Aesthetics. And this led to a new development of modern aesthetics in China after the May Fourth Movement.

Introduction:

Jin Lang, Doctor of Letters, is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Science, or Liberal arts College of Chongqing University, Chairman of the Department of Chinese, and Director of the Research Centre for Aesthetics and Literary Criticism. He is also the director of the Chinese Association for Theory of Literature and art. Dr. Jin has published more than sixty papers in journals such as Literary Review, and works, namely, Reclaiming Tradition: Cultural Imagination of Aesthetics in Wartime (1931-1949), and The Margins of Theory: An Exploration of Contemporary Chinese Literature and Aesthetics.