Journal article
Nature, Engagement, Empathy: Yijing as a Chinese Ecological Aesthetics
Environmental Values, Vol.26(3), pp.343-364
01/06/2017
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Abstract
The ancient aesthetics of yijing has played a crucial role in traditional Chinese philosophy, literature and art since the eighth century CE. Defined variously by early and contemporary writers, yijing links an artist's emotional domain to objects in the world. This article conceptualises yijing as an ecological aesthetics and distinguishes it from an environmental aesthetics. In particular, two aspects of yijing render it an eco-aesthetics: subject-object correspondence (or 'engagement'); and empathic identification with the environment (or 'bio-empathy'). Three brief case studies from urban planning, environmental conservation and the creative arts demonstrate the contemporary importance of yijing to ecological issues.
Details
- Title
- Nature, Engagement, Empathy: Yijing as a Chinese Ecological Aesthetics
- Creators
- Qi Li - Shanghai University of Engineering ScienceJohn Ryan - University of Western Australia
- Publication Details
- Environmental Values, Vol.26(3), pp.343-364
- Publisher
- The White Horse Press
- Number of pages
- 22
- Grant note
- Edith Cowan University University of Western Australia
- Identifiers
- 991013024976502368
- Copyright
- © 2017 The White Horse Press.
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Business, Law and Arts
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article