Chinese stuff(中国东西)

本书特色

这是一本轻松的大众流行读物，清晰的图像加上精炼的短文，完全契合了现代人的快速阅读习惯。 What are the things that reflect everyday Chinese aesthetics, and how can they influence the world? Believing that each man-made object reflects a society’s technological skills and ideological aspects during a certain period, Wu Xuefu and his dedicated team have been seeking the answer for many years.

内容简介

　　what we should be mostlyclear about are the stance that wetake and reality that we are in.Except for the features ofaesthetics，the Chinese-style stuff for show in this book are also characterized by some interesting traits： intense ethnic preferences， im provisation，mixing of pragmatism， flexible accom modability， political tradition &legacyandgeneofsocialsystem as well as mental state of show-off and affectation...We extract Chinese-style stuff from their ecological environments for an in-depth scrutiny of struaural contexts and cultural connotations ofthe things themselves，trying to deapher the relationships between the stuffand the Chinese people and between them and the Chinese society.Why attention on contemporaneous articles in common use in China ? For China whose influences to the world have been increasingly profound， we cannot presentit to the world only with its serious politics， stereotype historical specimens or grand epic image ofelitism.lnstead，we hope to explore cultural values in pristineness and humanity manifested by concrete objects of everyday life （i.e.articles，architecture，imagery， men or women）and exhibit a live and animated China to the whole world.uaural contexts and cultural connotations ofthe things themselves，trying to deapher the relationships between the stuffand the Chinese people and between them and the Chinese society.Why attention on contemporaneous articles in common use in China ? For China whose influences to the world have been increasingly profound， we cannot presentit to the world onlywith its serious politics， stereotype historical specimens or grand epic image ofelitism.lnstead，we hope to explore cultural values in pristineness and humanity manifested by concrete objects of everyday life （i.e.articles，architecture，imagery， men or women）and exhibit a live and animated China to the whole world.

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作者简介

吴学夫，中国传媒大学教授，中国传媒大学艺术设计研究中心主任 Wu Xuefu, a professor of art and design at Communication University of China