Comparison of the Compiling Systems of Chinese and Japanese Dictionaries of Aesthetics
Chen Yueying
Abstract:Motivated by Western aesthetics, Chinese and Japanese scholars combine their needs of the nations respectively and excavate aesthetic thought and discourse, trying to establish a disciplinary system of aesthetics in line with their own cultural characteristics. They both aiming at building an aesthetics system of knowledge and elements in the form of aesthetics dictionaries,and thus to outline the intrinsic connection between the entries. The Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Aesthetics compiled by the Japanese scholar Toshio Takeuchi and the Dictionary of Aesthetics by the Chinese scholar Zhu Liyuan, as representatives in the Chinese and Japanese academic worlds,embody the views of the aesthetic intellectuals of both countries on these issues. Based on the contents of the core entries such as "aesthetics" and "beauty", sorting out the logic amidst the entries, and clarifying the underlying compilation, the two dictionaries highlight their respective aesthetics argument, and analyze the views of the Chineseand Japanese aesthetics intellectual communities on the discipline and research of the corresponding aesthetics. Finally, this paper studies the two dictionaries which are compiled with the aesthetic ideas of the aestheticians and explore the differences and similarities between them.
Key words: Aesthetics;Aesthetic relation; Axiology; Practice-Ontology aesthetics
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