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Chinese Environmental Aesthetics - Wangheng Chen, Wuhan University, China, translated by Feng Su, Hunan Normal University, China (Hardcover)
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Chinese Environmental Aesthetics - Wangheng Chen, Wuhan University, China, translated by Feng Su, Hunan Normal University, China (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
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China is currently afflicted by enormous environmental problems.
This book, drawing on ancient and modern Chinese environmental
thinking, considers what it is that makes an environment a
desirable place for living. The book emphasises ideas of beauty,
and discusses how these ideas can be applied in natural,
agricultural and urban environments in order to produce desirable
environments. The book argues that environment is both a product of
nature and of human beings, and as such is potentially alterable by
culture. The book explores the three aspects of environmental
beauty whereby such alteration might be beneficially made:
integrated and holistic; ecological and man-made; and authentic and
everyday. This book addresses environmental issues by distinctively
suggesting that an aesthetic approach inspired from ancient Chinese
tradition could help us overcome the many problems that human
beings have created at local and global levels. Although its main
focus is the traditional and current contexts of the People's
Republic of China, the book transcends national borders. A typical
example is the ancient Chinese thought system and cultural practice
of Feng Shui ( ) that sought to negotiate how the natural
environment and human constructions can cohabit without destructing
each other. The author evokes that sought-after harmony through the
powerful image of gardens of life whose environmental beauty can be
found in traditional Chinese gardens and palaces as well as
historically and culturally preserved cities.
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