Abstract
Via his theory of "Aesthetic Education as Substitute for Religion," Cai Yuanpei intended to reconstruct the national belief through aesthetic education in a cultural context where the religious spirit was non-existent and the Confucian rites-music institutions had long collapsed. The uniqueness of aesthetics as mental activities and the socio-political context of modern China determine the tension between the secularity and the transcendence in the aesthetic construction of belief, which often results in the sacrifice of the transcendental spirit. This is closely linked with the state of mind of the intellectuals entangled between China and the west, the traditional and the modern.
First Page
137
Last Page
141
Recommended Citation
Pan, Liyong. 2012. "Upon "Aesthetic Education as Substitute for Religion" and the Secularity of Cai Yuanpei's Construction of Aesthetic Belief." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 32, (2): pp.137-141. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol32/iss2/21
