Preface
Ken-ichi Sasaki

Acknowledgements

Part I Japanese Aesthetics

Chapter 1 Introduction
Ken-ichi Sasaki
Chapter 2 Subject of the Absence and Absence of the Critique
Megumi Sakabe
Chapter 3 Japanese Philosophy in the Magnetic Field between Eastern and Western Languages
Ken-ichi Iwaki
Chapter 4 Art Outside Life and Art as Life
Akira Amagasaki
Chapter 5 The Aesthetics of Tradition: Making the Past Present
Michael F. Marra
Chapter 6 Another Aesthetics of the Image and/or the Utopia of Aesthetics
Keiji Asanuma

Part II Korean Aesthetics

Chapter 7 Introduction: Meot — In Search of Korean Aesthetic Identity
Ynhui Park
Chapter 8 On the Debate about the Colour White
Ihn-Bum Lee
Chapter 9 The Aesthetic Identity of Hangeul Calligraphy
Hunyee Jung
Chapter 10 The Aesthetics of the Plural Korean Essence
Frédéric Boulesteix

Part III Chinese Aesthetics

Chapter 11 Introduction: From the Classical to the Modern
Gao Jianping
Chapter 12 Several Inspirations from Traditional Chinese Aesthetics
Ye Lang
Chapter 13 The Theoretical Significance of Painting as Performance
Gao Jianping
Chapter 14 A Study in the Onto-Aesthetics of Beauty and Art: Fullness (chongshi) and Emptiness (kongling) as Two Polarities in Chinese Aesthetics
Cheng Chung-ying
Chapter 15 On the Modernisation of Chinese Aesthetics
Peng Feng
Chapter 16 Reflections on Avant-garde Theory in a Chinese-Western Cross-cultural Context — or an Amateur Attempt in Metatheory
Karl-Heinz Pohl

Part IV Indian Aesthetics

Chapter 17 Introduction to Indian Aesthetics
Grazia Marchianò
Chapter 18 What is Meant by “Art” in India — Western Misunderstandings
Chantal Maillard
Chapter 19 Ownerless Emotions in Rasa-Aesthetics
Arindam Chakrabarti
Chapter 20 On the Western Reception of Indian Aesthetics — the Grounds of Difference
Robert Wilkinson
Chapter 21 Transcultural Aesthetics: Schopenhauer and Tagore
R. Raj Singh

Part V Southeast Asian Aesthetics

Chapter 22 Introduction to the Aesthetics of Southeast Asia
David Chou-Shulin
Chapter 23 Traditional Thai Buddhist Art and Modern Challenges
Suwanna Satha-Anand
Chapter 24 Poetry, Identity, and Social Modernisation
Lin Sheng-Bin
Chapter 25 Southeast Asia: Modern, Postmodern, or Premodern?
David Chou-Shulin

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