Ego, Convolution, and Exchange： Reflections on Modem Chinese Aesthetics

作     者：ZHAO Zhen 

作者机构：Xiamen University Fujian China Zunyi Normal College Guizhou China 

基　　金：Acknowledgements: This paper was sponsored by China National Social Science Foundation "Research on the Fundamental Problems of the Contemporary Aesthetics and Criticism Patterns" (15ZDB023) and the National Social Science Fund Project "Chinese 'Fantasy Literature' Studied in the Western Cultural Context" (11XZW031) 

出 版 物：《Journal of Literature and Art Studies》 (文学与艺术研究（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2016年第6卷第12期

页      码：1523-1535页

摘      要：Contemporary Chinese aesthetics have three important ＂traces＂： ego aesthetics represented by Chinese fantasy literature; convoluted aesthetics represented by the contemporary Chinese movie ＂Loss＂ and the novel Monk; and the fetish aesthetics of symbolic exchange, as represented by Huang Xiaoming＇s wedding and the auctioning of Jack Ma＇s painting. These represent the transmutation of contemporary Chinese aesthetics from adolescent ego aesthetics to adult convoluted aesthetics to the fetish aesthetics of symbolic exchange, thus completing the successive change of logic from ego to society to reality. In tracing these successive changes in logic, we are thinking about questions raised by the times. These concern the future of Chinese contemporary aesthetics and constitute an aesthetic revolution. They mean that contemporary Chinese aesthetic practice has moved from text to community and then evolved into social reality. Further, they also smack of mutual imitation between aesthetics and life. Contemporary Chinese theorists should be actively involved in the revolution, responding to major issues and, as they face social practices, acquiring transcendental characteristics in contemporary aesthetic leadership.

主 题 词：ego convolution imagination tragedy modernity exchange symbol 

学科分类：05[文学] 

D　O　I：10.17265/2159-5836/2016.12.008

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