Chinese Aesthetics
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Chinese aesthetics is concerned with self-conscious, educated decorum, to be identified with moral and social order as well. A premium in traditional Chinese philosophy is placed on social harmony, and art is meant to reflect that. To be sure, there is abundant evidence that "the Chinese story" is suffused with both "periods of bloodthirsty upheaval and civilized splendor" (Bloodworth 15).However, the arts survive wars as well as the rivalries between Confucianism, Taoism, and Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism. Whereas Confucius stresses order and ritual observance, Taoism focuses on "a universal blind force
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