“Allégorie de la banalité et sentiment de l’oisiveté. L’Esthétique de la prose chez les lettrés chinois"

Professor Liu's article “Allégorie de la banalité et sentiment de l’oisiveté. L’Esthétique de la prose chez les lettrés chinois" was published in Culture du loisir, art et esthétique. A summary of the book is below. Both the summary and the book cover's image on the right are courtesy of You-Feng.

Whether it is valued at the highest point as in China or devalued as in certain periods in Europe, leisure is not only a social reality. Leisure and the culture that goes with it represent a cultural ideal, which is expressed in various aesthetic and artistic forms, always linked to freedom and creativity, yesterday as today, here as elsewhere. How is it in fact that in China, leisure goes hand in hand with art? That in Europe it could have been considered as alienating or as a liberator? That it could have served as an ideological instrument? That it be the vector of self-development while serving as a collective cement? That its aesthetic expressions go far beyond the artistic domain alone? Why does it occupy such a place in sociability,as well among the Chinese, the Europeans, as among the Indians of Panama? This work attempts to answer such questions, from an aesthetic and anthropological approach, calling on specialists in philosophy, aesthetics, musicology, sociology, poetry or visual arts, Chinese and European culture, such as J.-M. Schaeffer, Huang K.-M., Ph. Roussin, Lin C.-M., V. Shen, E. Buch, F. Flahault, Tsai M.-C, Rong B., Hong-Chariff W., J. Liu or Y. Escande.poetry or visual arts, Chinese and European culture, such as J.-M. Schaeffer, Huang K.-M., Ph. Roussin, Lin C.-M., V. Shen, E. Buch, F Flahault, Tsai M.-C, Rong B., Hong-Chariff W., J. Liu or Y. Escande.poetry or visual arts, Chinese and European culture, such as J.-M. Schaeffer, Huang K.-M., Ph. Roussin, Lin C.-M., V. Shen, E. Buch, F Flahault, Tsai M.-C, Rong B., Hong-Chariff W., J. Liu or Y. Escande.