Chinese environmental aesthetics

• Verfasst von: Chen, Wangheng [VerfasserIn]
• VerfasserIn: 陈望衡 [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Chinese environmental aesthetics
• Werktitel: Huan jing mei xue
• Werktitel: 環境美學
• Verf.angabe: by Wangheng Chen ; translated by Feng Su ; edited by Gerald Cipriani
• Verlagsort: London
• Verlag: Routledge
• Jahr: 2015
• Umfang: xx, 212 pages
• Illustrationen: illustrations
• Format: 24 cm
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Routledge contemporary China series ; 126
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-203) and index. - Translated from the Chinese language
• ISBN: 978-0-415-54017-9
• ISBN: 9781315712963
• ISBN: 0-415-54017-8
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 1618561936

Abstract

"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"--