Abstract
The Italian Renaissance, as an "Other" of Chinese thoughts, has been playing an important role in helping Chinese intellectuals and scholars to reshape their subjective imagination about nations, states, arts, beliefs, values, and individuality. From the outset of Modernization, it provoked several waves of debate among Chinese artists, theorists, historians, intellectuals and scholars, respectively during the early 1930s, 1978-1980, and 2007-2008. Broadly speaking, the Chinese scholarship on the Italian Renaissance has developed in several directions. In terms of research objectives, it ranges from instrumentalist and pragmatic appropriations of Western learning, to more comprehensive, sophisticated socio-historical research and cultural studies. In terms of judgment stance, it ranges from idolization of the Italian Renaissance to a more objective critique of the different contexts between Chinese and Western art, literature, and culture, and of the disadvantages of "individuality", "secularization", etc. In terms of research objects, Chinese scholars shift their focus from master artists and thinkers, famous families to more diverse topics, including such cultural aspects as wedding, funeral, sexuality, city, everyday lives and so on.
First Page
200
Last Page
208
Recommended Citation
Gao, Xin. 2017. "The Italian Renaissance in China." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 37, (1): pp.200-208. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol37/iss1/17
