Download or read book The Worlds of Classical Chinese Aesthetics written by PAUL R. GOLDIN and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the foundations of classical Chinese aesthetic discourse - roughly from the Bronze Age to the early Middle Ages - and considers the reasons why music, poetry, calligraphy and painting were the arts that garnered the most theoretical attention during this period.