Cross-Cultural Reflections on Chinese Aesthetics, Gender, Embodiment and Learning

Spiritual Rituals of Chinese Ink Painting: The Suggestions of Shih Tao.- Ideas of the Body in Zhu Guangqin's Aesthetics.- The Origin of "Aesthetic Experience" as the Key of Comparative Aesthetics: The Case of Confucian Aesthetics and the Recent Suggestion of Its Reference to Western Feminist Aesthetics".- Contemporary Feminist Aesthetics in China.- The Revelations of Ban Zhao's Lessons for Women.- The Relation of 'Self' and "Others" in the Confucian Traditions and Its Implications to Global Feminisms and Public Philosophies.- A Further Reflection on Some Feminist Perspectives in Epistemology.- Judith Butler's Reading of the Sartrian Bodies and the Cartesian Ghosts.- Beyond Ontology? Reflections on Robert Solomon's Ideation of Emotion and Mencius' Moral Cultivation of 'Embodied Emotion.-  A Cross-Cultural Reflection on Shusterman's Suggestion of the "Transactional" Body.- Chinese Bodies in Philosophy, Aesthetics, Gender and Politics: Methodologies and Practices.- Is Confucianism aReligion? Investigation into the Religious Aspects of Confucianism.- A Historical Review and Reflection on the Confucian "Great Learning" and its Contemporary Implications for Higher Education.- Lao Sze-Kwang's Discourse on Chinese Philosophy and Contemporary Popular Confucianism in China.- What Does Comparative Philosophy Mean to a Female Chinese Scholar Like Me.

Prof. Eva Man is currently the Director of Film Academy and Chair Professor in Humanities of Hong Kong Baptist University. She publishes widely in comparative aesthetics, comparative philosophy, woman studies, feminist philosophy, cultural studies, art and cultural criticism. She was a Fulbright scholar conducted research at the University of California, Berkeley in 2004. She was named AMUW Endowed Woman Chair Professor of the 100th Anniversary of Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA in 2009. She contributes public services to the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Hong Kong Museums Advisory Committee and Hong Kong Public Libraries and other committees for LCSD and Home Affairs Bureau of HKSAR, and Hong Kong Jockey Club's Arts and Cultural Heritage projects.