Cheng Xiangzhan, born on July 15, 1966, hails from Xinyexian, Henan Province. He graduated from the Chinese Department of Zhengzhou University in 1989 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. In 1992, he graduated from the Chinese Department of Shandong University and obtained a master's degree in Chinese Literary Criticism. In 1995, he graduated from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature atShandong University with a Ph.D. in the major of Ancient/Traditional Chinese Literature, and in the same year, he remained at Shandong University, joining the teaching staff of the Office of Teaching and Research in Literary Theory. He was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor at Shandong Universityin 1997. In 1999, he started to serve as a Thesis Advisor for MA students in the major of Literature and Art. In 2000, he was appointed as a Professor, and Assistant to the Director of the Research Center for Literary and Artistic Aesthetics of Shandong University, a Key Research Base in the Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education. He was promoted to the rank of Professor at Shandong University in 2004. From August 2006 through August 2007 Professor Cheng was a full-year visiting research scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute of Harvard University in the United States. In 2009, after a process of appraisal, Professor Cheng qualified as a Dissertation Advisor for Ph.D students in the area of Literature and Art at Shandong University, enrolling doctoral students under his tutelage and mentorship in the area of “Chinese Aesthetics” (since 2014 this student enrollment orientation has been adjusted to the area of “Ecological Aesthetics and Environmental Aesthetics”). Since 2010, he has served as Associate Director of the Research Center for Literary and Artistic Aesthetics of Shandong University, a Key Research Base in the Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education (with primary responsibility for international scholarly exchange.) Since 2011, Professor Cheng has served as AssociateDirector of the Center for Ecological Aesthetics and Ecological Literature Research of Shandong University. In 2012, together with Professors Zeng Fanren and Lu Xuyuan,Professor Cheng co-founded the Ecological Aesthetics and Ecological Criticism Newsletter, and served as its Executive Editor. Since 2012, he has served as a member of the International Advisory Committee for the international English-language journalContemporary Aesthetics. Since 2014, he has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Chinese Academy of Literary Theory. In 2015, he co-founded the Center for Ecological Civilization and Ecological Aesthetics Research of Shandong University with Professor Zeng Fanren and served as itsAssociate Director. In 2017, Professor Cheng, through a process of assessment and selection, became a “Changjiang Scholar” Chair Professor under the aegis of the Ministry of Education. In April 2018, he assumed the duties of Associate Dean of the School of Literature, Shandong University.
Professor Cheng’s current and on-going primary research areas include: Chinese Aesthetics, Ecological Aesthetics, Environmental Aesthetics, Aesthetics of the Human Body (or “Soma-aesthetics”) and Ecological Criticism. He has published 8 monographs and 3 works of translation (translations of foreign scholarly works into the Chinese language.) In addition, he has also published more than 110 scholarly papers and articles – in Chinese as well as in other languages (including ten in the English language) in China, the United States, Britain, Germany, Poland, Turkey, Slovakia and other countries.
In the area of teaching, Professor Cheng has, over the years, offered the following courses for undergraduates:
· “Introduction to Literature”
· “History of Chinese Literary Criticism”
· “Comparative Literary Theory in China and the West” (taught bilingually in Chinese and English)
· “German Classical Aesthetics”
· “Narratology”
· “Modern Literary Aesthetics”
· “Introduction to Aesthetics”
· “Ecological Criticism”
· “Studies in Categories in Modern Aesthetics”
For MA students, Professor Cheng has offered:
· “Topical Studies in Ancient/Traditional Chinese Literary Theory”
· “Studies in Chinese Poetics”
· “Professional English for Graduate Students(majoring in Literature and Literary Arts)”
· “Special Topics in Chinese Aesthetics”
Professor Cheng also offers, for Ph.D students:
· “Topics in Environmental Aesthetics”
· “Professional English (History of Western Aesthetics)
The following comprises a list of Professor Cheng’s published works:
Monographs
1. The Heart of Literature’s TriangularAesthetics of Literature and Art:The Modern Transformation of the Ancient Chinese Theory of the Literary Mind, Jinan: Shandong University Press, 2002
2. Studies of Narrative Poetry in Traditional China, Guilin: Guangxi Normal University Press, 2002
3. Selected Tang Poetry, (Co-editor in chief), Beijing: Golden Shield Press, 2002
4. Studies on the Fundamental Issues of Literary Aesthetics in the Modern Perspective,(Editor-in-Chief),Jinan: Qilu Shushe Publishers, 2003
5. Research on Chinese Environmental Aesthetics Thought, (Editor-in-Chief), Zhengzhou: Henan People's Press, 2009. (In December 2010, this book received a Level-2 Excellent Book in Henan Province 2008-2009 Award, approved and conferred by the Henan Provincial Press and Publication Bureau. This book also received, in September 2010, an Outstanding Reading Material in the Social Sciences Award in the 25th Annual Competition and Recognition of Outstanding Publications in the Northern-15 Provinces, Municipalities and Autonomous Regions, approved and conferred by the Evaluation and Selection Committee for Outstanding Publications in Philosophy and the Social Sciences for the Northern-15 Provinces, Municipalities and Autonomous Regions)
6. Dialogues of a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, Beijing: The Commercial Press, 2011
7. Collected Discourses in the Aesthetics of Living Life: From Literary Aesthetics to Ecological Aesthetics, Beijing: People's Press, 2012
8. Cheng Xiangzhan, Arnold Burleant[USA], Paul Gobster [USA], Wang Xinhao [USA], Ecological Aesthetics and Ecological Assessment and Planning, (bilingual publication in Chinese and English), primary author, Zhengzhou: Henan People's Publishing House, 2013
Translations of Foreign Scholarly Works
1. Body Consciousness and Body Aesthetics, (a translation of Richard Shusterman[USA], Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics), Beijing: The Commercial Press, 1st edition 2011, 2nd edition 2014
2. Aesthetics and Environment: Multiple Variations of a Theme, (a translation of Arnold Burleant [USA], Aesthetics and Environment: Themes and Variations on Art and Culture), co-translator with Song Yanxia, Kaifeng: Henan University Press, 2013
3. Philosophy of the Arts: An Introduction to Aesthetics, (a translation of Gordon Graham [United Kingdom], Philosophy of the Arts: An Introduction to Aesthetics), Beijing: Beijing Normal University Press, 2016
Scholarly Papers and Journal Articles
1. “The Teachings of Poetry and the Ethics of Ritualism”, Studies of Confucius, no. 2, 1991. Reprinted in The People’s University’s Reprints of Newspaper and Periodical Materials, Literature in Traditional and Modern China, no. 4, 1991
2. “Taste, the Meaning Beyond Taste, and the Artistic State of Mind”,Academic Journal of Henan University, no. 5, 1991
3. “Liu Xie's Philosophy of Emptiness and Tranquility”, Academic Journal of Shandong University, no. 2, 1991
4. “The Extension of Confucius's Musical Thoughts in Ruan Ji and Ji Kang, and Its Influence”, Studies of Confucius, no. 3, 1993
5. “Wang Yuyang and the Chan School [of Buddhism]”,Academic Journal of Shandong University, no. 1,1993
6. “Reflections on the Partisan Factional Struggles in the Late-Ming Dynasty in the Poem‘The Ballad of Luoyang’”, Academic Journal of Soochow University, no. 4, 1994
7. “Essential Points in the Study of Wu Weiye and Narrative Poetry in Ancient and Traditional China”, Our Literary Legacy, no. 6, 1995
8. “Wu Weiye's Thought on Poetic Historicism”,Academic Journal of Suzhou University, no. 4, 1995
9. “Wang Yuyang's Poetic Ideals”, Collected Papers from the Huantai International Symposium of Wang Yuyang Studies, Shandong University Press, 1995
10. “On the Usage of Literary and Historical References in the ‘[Wu] Meicun Style’ of Poetry”, Academic Journal of Shandong University, no. 1, 1996
11. “The Theme and Intent of ‘The Song of [Chen] Yuanyuan’”,Literary and Historical Knowledge, no. 3, 1996
12. “Seeking a Resolution for the Public Debate on Whether or Not there are Epics in Ancient China”, Wen-Shi-Zhe (A Journal of Literature, History and Philosophy), no. 5, 1996
13. “On the Characteristics of Narrative Poetry in Folk Songs in the Pre-Qin, Qin and Han Dynasties Period”,Academic Monthly, no. 7, 1997
14. “The ‘Quantum’ Category in Poetics”, Eastern Serial Periodicals, no. 4, 1997
15. “A Poet’s Inscription for His Own Tombstone”, Biographies of Literary Masters of the Ages, Shandong People's Publishing House, 1997
16. “Re-interpreting Liang Qichao”, Xinhua Digest, no. 4, 1999
17. “Seeking the Ideal Form of Literary and Artistic Studies”, China Education News, June 13, 1999
18. “Three Difficult Issues in the Modern Transformation of Traditional Literary Theory”, Chinese Cultural News, July 17, 1999
19. “A Review of Wang Yingzhi's Studies of the School of Spirituality”, Literary Review, no. 4, 1999
20. “An Overview of the Symposium on Aesthetic Education in the Age of Knowledge Economy”, Wen-Shi-Zhe (A Journal of Literature, History and Philosophy), no. 6, 1999
21. “An Interactive Interpretive Reading Between [Karl Marx’s] The Paris Manuscripts and [Liu Xie’s] Wenxin diaolong (The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons)”, Academic Journal of Shandong University, no. 1, 2000
22. “The History and the Future of Literary Aesthetics”, China Education News, May 24, 2001
23. “The Culture-of-Ritualism Foundations and Background for a Literary-Genre Analysis of the Wenxin diaolong (The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons)”, Humanistic Writings, vol. 4, 2001
24. “Literary Aesthetics as an ‘Intraphysical’(形而中) Philosophical Discipline”, Literary Aesthetics Studies, vol. 1, 2002
25. “Kuang Zhouyi's Theory of ‘The Heart of Ci Poetry’ and Wang Guowei's ‘Matters of Human Life’”, The Cutting Edge in Literature, vol. 5, 2002
26. “Lu Ji’sWenfu(An Essay on Literature) and the Meta-Question of Literary and Artistic Studies”, Academic Journal of Suzhou University, no. 1, 2002;also excerpted inDigest of University Journals in the Liberal Arts, no. 3, 2002
27. “The Theory of ‘Realm’ (jneya)in Buddhist Philosophy and the Theory of ‘Realm’ (jingjie)in Literature and Art in Traditional China”, Eastern Serial Periodicals, no. 3, 2002.Reprinted in The People’s University’s Reprints of Newspaper and Periodical Materials, Literature in Traditional and Modern China, no. 1, 2003
28. “The Karma of My Literary Aesthetics”, in the School of Literature, Shenzhen University, ed.The Pursuit of Beauty: The Academic Career of Hu Jingzhi, Beijing University Press, 2003
29. “The Poetic Nature of Anticipation in Aesthetic Theory”, China Education News, March 27, 2003
30. “Wang Guowei's Theory of Artistic Conception and His Thought on ‘Realm’”, Wen-Shi-Zhe (A Journal of Literature, History and Philosophy),no. 3, 2003
31. “The Foundations and Background of the Theory of Value in the ‘And Thus’ (weizhi) Discourse in Ancient Chinese Thought”, Chinese Cultural Studies, no. 2, 2003
32. “An Academic Revelation of [Wang Guowei’s Dictum]of ‘Go Into [the Cosmos and Human Life,] But Also Come Out of [the Cosmos and Human Life]”,Eastern Serial Periodicals, no. 2, 2003
33. “Literary Aesthetics Studies in the Perspective of ‘Non-mainstream’ Aesthetics”, Eastern Serial Periodicals, no. 4, 2003
34. “The Cultural Spirit of the Theory of ‘Realm’ in Chinese Literature and Art and Its Cataclysmic Transformation in Modern Times”, Academic Journal of Jiangsu University (Social Sciences Edition), no. 3, 2003
35. “Aesthetic Judgment and the Achievement of the Concept of Civilization”, Literary Aesthetics Studies, vol. 2, 2003
36. “The Poetics of Nature: Reflections in the Cultural Environment” (a translation), Literary Aesthetics Studies, vol. 2, 2003
37. “The Salvation of Aestheticsin the New Axis Age”, China Reading News, July 21, 2004
38. “The Aesthetic Dimension of Feng Youlan's Theory of ‘Realm’ in Human Life”, Studies of Confucius, no. 5, 2004
39. “The Concept of the Axis Age and the Reconstruction of Discourse in Chinese Literary Theory”, Hebei Academic Journal, no. 1, 2005
40. “A Glimpse of Chinese Aesthetics in the New Century”, Social Sciences Bulletin, February 17, 2005
41. “Studies of the Ecological Spirit and Aesthetics, and of the Ecological Spirit and Literary and Artistic Studies”, Academic Journal of Jiangsu University (Social Sciences Edition), no. 3, 2005
42. “Ecological Wisdom and Local Aesthetic Experience”, Academic Journal of Jiangsu University (Social Sciences Edition), no. 4, 2005. Reprinted in The People’s University’s Reprints of Newspaper and Periodical Materials, Aesthetics, no. 9, 2005
43. “The Common People’s Dwellings in Ancient Times in Huizhou from the Perspective of Aesthetic Culture”, Jianghai Academic Journal, no. 1, 2006
44. “Let Literary Aesthetics be More Like Literary Aesthetics”, China Reading News, January 18, 2006
45. “Studies of the Cultural Function of Cities and of Urban Culture”, Humanities Magazine, no. 2, 2006
46. “Recent Progress in the Ideology of Metropolitan Beltways in the United States”,Social Development Forum, no. 6, 2006
47. “University Teaching and Research Should Emphasize Classical Consciousness”, Social Sciences Bulletin, July 20, 2006
48. “The Concept of ‘Living Life’ and the Construction of Contemporary Ecological Aesthetics in China's Axis Age”, in Zeng Fanren (editor in chief), Man and Nature: Aesthetics and Literature in the Perspective of Contemporary Ecological Civilization, Henan People's Publishing House, 2006
49. “The Contemporary Significance of the Study of the History of Environmental Aesthetics in China”, Academic Journal of Jiangsu University (Social Sciences Edition), no. 4, 2007
50. “World Scholars Pay Attention to Landscape Aesthetics”, Social Sciences Bulletin, May 31, 2007
51. “Environmental Perception, Ecological Wisdom and Innovation in Confucianism”, Academic Monthly, January 2008, (principal author)
52. “The Ecological Consciousness of the First Major Metropolitan Belt in the United States”, China Green Times, March 3, 2008
53. “Harvard University's Green Campus Action”, Social Sciences Bulletin, March 6, 2008
54. “Aesthetic Ecology and Urban Environment”, (Translationfrom the original byArnold Berleant,American environmental aesthetician), Academic Monthly, March 2008, with annotations and commentary by Professor Zeng Fanren. Reprinted in The People’s University’s Reprints of Newspaper and Periodical Materials, Aesthetics, no. 7, 2008
55. “The Integration of Aesthetic and Visual Landscape Assessment in Sustainable Development Planning”, Academic Journal of Jiangsu University (Social Sciences Edition), no. 2, 2008, Third author. Reprinted in The People’s University’s Reprints of Newspaper and Periodical Materials, Aesthetics, no. 7, 2008
56. “Essentials of the Ideology of Metropolitan Belts in the West”, Academic Journal of Henan University (Social Sciences Edition), no. 4, 2008. Republished in Liu Shilin (editor in chief),Report on the Urbanization Process in China in 2007, Shanghai People's Publishing House, 2008
57. “The Dual Structure of the Concept of ‘Ding’(鼎)in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties”, Northwest Ethnic Studies, no. 2, 2008, co-authored, as second author, with Zhang Changyong
58. “The Norton Era of Art Education at Harvard University”, Literary Aesthetics Studies, vol. 4, Henan People's Publishing House, 2007
59. “Toward a True Environmental Aesthetics: Resolving the Boundaries and Oppositions in the Aesthetic Experience of Landscapes”, (Translation of Emily Brady (United Kingdom),“Vers une véritable esthétique de ‘environment’”,Academic Journal of Jiangsu University (Social Sciences Edition), no. 4, 2008. Reprinted in The People’s University’s Reprints of Newspaper and Periodical Materials, Aesthetics, no. 1, 2009
60. “Urban Image and Urban Aesthetics: Urban Aesthetics in Cross-Cultural Perspective”, The Journal of Faculty of Letters, no. 2, 2008
61. “The Ideological Foundations and Theoretical Progress in American Ecological Aesthetics”, Literary Review, no. 1, 2009
62. “Su Shi's Theory of ‘Art and Philosophical Principle Advance Together’ and the Framework of the Philosophy of Art in China”, in Su Shi's Theory of ‘Art and Philosophical Principle Advance Together’ and the Framework of the Philosophy of Art in China, Spring vol., 2009
63. “From Environmental Aesthetics to Urban Aesthetics”, Academic Research, no. 5, 2009, in collaboration with American scholar Arnold Burleant.Principal author. Reprinted in The People’s University’s Reprints of Newspaper and Periodical Materials, Aesthetics, no. 7, 2009
64. “Is There Any Ecological Aesthetics in the West?”, in Wang Desheng, (editor in chief), Questions and Transformations: Contemporary Chinese Aesthetics in Multidimensional Perspective, Shandong Fine Arts Publishing House, 2009
65. “The Historical Nature and the Literary Nature of Chinese Literary History”, Academic Journal of Jiangsu University, no. 5, 2009
66. “International Correspondence on Studies on Metropolitan Culture and Urban Aesthetics”, Chinese Urban Culture Studies, vol. 1, Shanghai People's Publishing House, 2009
67. “The Third Wave of Ecological Criticism: Ecological Literary Aesthetics”, Chinese Social Sciences Bulletin, February 11, 2010, pg. 11
68. “Tradition and Modernity in Chinese Literary Theory”, Academic Journal of Jiangsu University, no. 2, 2010
69. “Somaesthetics (Aesthetics of the Human Body) and Aesthetic Activities in Everyday Life”, Contending Voices in Literature and Art, May, 2010
70. “Environmental Aesthetics and Ecological Aesthetics: Arnold Berleant’s Impact on Ecological Aesthetics in China,” Sztuka i Filozofia, Fall, 2010
71. “Significance of Ecological Aesthetics in Urban Planning and Design,”Chinese Urban Culture Studies, vol. 2, Shanghai People's Publishing House, 2010
72. “Historical Forms of Western Cities and Their Cultural Spirit”, Chinese Urban Culture Studies, vol. 2, Shanghai People's Publishing House, 2010
73. “Cultural Diversity and Cross-cultural Aesthetics Research: A Dialogue with Professor Irene Winter”, in Liu Yuedi (editor in chief),Aesthetics International: Interviews with Contemporary International Aestheticians, Chinese Social Sciences Press, 2010
74. “Ecological Criticism, Urban Environment, and Environmental Criticism”, Academic Journal of Jiangsu University, no. 5, 2010
75. “Ecoaesthetics and ecocriticism”, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, vol 17, no. 4 (Autumn 2010): 785-789. (This academic journal is included in the SSCI [Social Sciences Citation Index], the HIC [Humanities International Complete, an EBSCO full-text database of international Humanities publications]and the MLAIB [Modern Language Association International Bibliography])
76. (co-authored with Xinhao Wang) “Contribution of ecological aesthetics to urban planning”, International Journal of Society Systems Science (IJSSS), vol. 3, no. 3, (2011): 203–216
77. “From City to Metropolis”, Academic Journal of Jiangnan University, no. 3, 2011
78. “On the Three Levels of Body Aesthetics (Somaesthetics)”, Studies in Literary Theory, no. 6, 2011. Reprinted in The People’s University’s Reprints of Newspaper and Periodical Materials, Aesthetics, no. 3, 2012
79. “Environmental Aesthetics’sContinuation of and Expansion on Analytical Aesthetics”, Studies in Literature and Art, no. 3, 2012, pp. 24-30
80. “The Ten-year Progress in ‘Living Life’ Aesthetics”, Academic Journal of Lake Poyang, no. 6, 2012, pp. 73-80
81. “On the Connection and Distinction between Environmental Aesthetics and Ecological Aesthetics”, Academic Research, no. 1, 2013,pp. 122-131
82. “On the Four Essential Characteristics of Ecological Aesthetics”, Social Sciences in Tianjin, no. 5, 2013,pp. 120-125. Full-text reprint inXinhua Digest,no. 23
83. “On the Four Keystones of Ecological Aesthetic Appreciation”, in Simon C. Estok and Won-Chung Kim, eds. East Asian Ecocriticisms: A Critical Reader, Macmillan, 2013, pp. 213-228
84. “Aesthetic Engagement, Ecosophy C, and Ecological Appreciation”, Contemporary Aesthetics, no. 11, 2013 (http://www.contempaesthetics.org/newvolume/pages/article.php?articleID=680)
85. “Exploring New Models of Ecological Criticism”, China Press and Publication News, August 22, 2014
86. “On the Ecological-Aesthetic Implications and Ideological Limitations of Bai Juyi's Life at Home and Garden in His Late Years”, The Journal of Jiangsu Administration Institute, no. 4, 2014, pp. 33-39, in collaboration with Zhuang Shouping. (Principal author)
87. “The Concept of an Ecological Civilization and the Direction of Development in Ecological Aesthetics”, Hundred Schools Review, no. 2, 2014
88. “Aesthetics Construction in the Era of Ecological Civilization”, Academic Journal of Lake Poyang,no. 3, 2014, co-author with Zeng Fanren. (Secondary author)
89. “Exploring a Path toward the Unification of the Ecological Viewpoint, the Humanistic Viewpoint, and the Aesthetic Viewpoint”, China Reading News,October 8, 2014, p. 19
90. “The Aesthetics Perspective in Ecological Aesthetics and Its Research Objectives”, Social Sciences in Tianjin, no. 1, 2015, pp. 136-142
91. “Prospects and Directions for the Development of Ecological Aesthetics in China”, Seeking Truth, no. 1, 2015, pp. 119-122. Reprinted in The People’s University’s Reprints of Newspaper and Periodical Materials, Aesthetics, no. 3, 2015, pp. 8-11
92. “The Construction of Ecological Aesthetics and the Establishment of Its Self-Confidence as an Academic Discipline”, Studies in Literary Theory, no. 1, 2015, pp. 50-55
93. “Reflecting on the Foggy Climate in Ecological Aesthetics: With also a Discussion of the Proposition of ‘The Naturalization of Nature’and the Essentials of Living Life Aesthetics”, Zhongzhou Academic Journal, no. 1, 2015, pp. 158-164
94. “A Critical Reflection on Baumgarten’s Conception of Aesthetics Researched by Zhu Guangqian”, Academic Monthly, no. 1, 2015, pp. 135-142
95. “Theoretical Innovation in Aesthetics and the Trifold Change in Direction of Aesthetics”, Academic Journal of Fudan University(Social Sciences Edition), no. 1, 2015,pp. 36-43. Reprinted in The Digest of Papers in the Liberal Arts in Colleges and Universities,no. 2, 2015, pp. 26-28. Reprinted in The People’s University’s Reprints of Newspaper and Periodical Materials, Aesthetics, no. 5, 2015, pp. 3-10
96. “The Deepening and the Expanding of Western Environmental Aesthetics in the New Century”, Academic Forum, no. 4, 2015, pp. 1-8
97. “On the Theoretical Significances of ‘Ecological Civilization’ from the Perspective of ‘Cultural Maladies’”, Academic Journal of Nanjing Forestry University, no. 2, 2015, pp. 53-58
98. “The Concern of The Times for Ecological Aesthetics”, China Green Times, October 10, 2015
99. “Phenomenology and the Construction of Ecological Aesthetics”, Academic Journal of Lake Poyang, no. 5, 2015, pp. 120-125
100. “An Overview of the International Symposium on ‘The Space for Ecological Aesthetics and Ecological Criticism”,Social Sciences inShandong, no. 12, 2015, inside back cover and back cover
101. “A New International Vision of Ecological Aesthetics and Ecological Criticism", Academic Journal of Lake Poyang, no. 1, 2016, pp. 117-124
102. “Ecosophy and Ecoaesthetics: A Chinese Perspective”, in Hubert Zapf, ed. Handbook of Ecocriticism and Cultural Ecology, Berlin /Boston: de Gruyter, 2016: 481-493
103. “The Chinese Discourse of Ecological Aesthetics”, The Journal of Jiangsu Administration Institute, no. 3, 2016, pp. 35-40
104. “The Question of Flood Disasters in the Perspective of Ecological Wisdom”, Chinese Journal of Ecology, no. 36, 2016, pp. 4938-4939
105. “An Analysis of the Theoretical Thinking and Key Words of Environmental Aesthetics”, Social Sciences in Shandong, no. 9, 2016, pp. 16-23
106. “Ecological Aesthetics: A LegitimateUnion between Ecology and Aesthetics: With also A Response to Mr. Berleant”, Exploration and Contending Voices, no. 12, 2016, pp. 52-57
107. “Chinese Aesthetics and Ecological Wisdom”, Guangming Daily, January 16, 2017, p. 15
108. “Body Aesthetics and the Effective Growth of Knowledge in the Realm of Aesthetic Theory: A Review of Introduction to Body Aesthetics by Wang Xiaohua”, The Review of Chinese Books, no. 5, 2017
109. “The Infrastructural Mechanics of Literary Theory and the Mechanics of Innovation inLiterary Theory”, Academic Journal of Jinan University, no. 7, 2017
110. “ ‘The Way of Living Life’Speaks of A ‘Myriad Things’”,People's Daily, (Overseas Edition), August 29, 2017, p. 7
111. “The Archetype of Chinese Aesthetic Activity and a Construction of Everyday Aesthetics”, in Curtis L. Carter, ed., Unsettled Boundaries: Philosophy, Art, Ethics East / West, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Marquette University Press, 2017, pp.63-76
112. “On the Key Term ‘Aesthetic Engagement’ in Ecological Aesthetics: The Real Meaning of Kant's Concept of ‘Non-Engagement’, and Its Critique”, Fujian Forum (Humanities and Social Sciences Edition), no. 12, 2017. Reprinted in The People’s University’s Reprints of Newspaper and Periodical Materials, Aesthetics, no. 2, 2018
113. “Methodological Issues for the Study of Ecological Aesthetic Wisdom in China: with Zhao Fengyuan's ‘An Analysis of Zhuang Zi's Ecological Aesthetic Wisdom’ as a Case Study”, Academic Journal on Guan Zi Studies, no. 2, 2017
114. “Some Critical Reflections on Berleantian Critique of Kantian Aesthetics from the Perspective of Eco-aesthetics”, Espes, vol. 6, issue 2, December 2017
Professor Cheng has undertaken the following major sponsored-research projects:
1. A Modern Interpretation of The Theory of the Literary Mind in Ancient/Traditional China.National Foundation for the Social SciencesYoung Scholar Research Project.1998-2000. Approval No. 98CZW001. Sole researcher. Amount of grant: 20,000 yuan
2. Research on the Basic Categories of Ancient Chinese Literary Aesthetics. (A sub-project of “Research on the Basic Theoretical Issues and System Framework of Literary Aesthetics”, aMajor Project of the Ministry of Education's Key Humanities and Social SciencesResearch Base.) 2001-2003.Sole researcher. Amount of grant: 20,000 yuan
3. Principles of Urban Culture. (A Textbook project.)Sponsored by The Metropolitan Cultural Research Center, Shanghai Normal University.2004-2006. Project collaborator. Amount of grant: 10,000 yuan
4. A Modern Interpretation of the “Ontological Body vs. Use/Application” (ti-yong) Theory in Classical Chinese Literary Aesthetics. (A sub-project of “The Modern Value of Chinese Classical Literary Aesthetics”, aMajor Project of the Ministry of Education's Key Humanities and Social SciencesResearch Base.) 2005-2008.Amount of grant: 30,000 yuan
5. A Study of the Emergence of Urban Culture in the Jiangnan Regionand Its Origins and Sources Prior to the Tenth Century CE. (A sub-project of “The Historical Origins and Sources of Urban Culture in the Jiangnan Region and A Modern Interpretation”, aMajor Project of the Ministry of Education's Key Humanities and Social SciencesResearch Base.)Amount of grant: 30,000 yuan
6. A Study of Art Education at Harvard University. (A sub-project of “A Comparative Study of Art Education in Modern and Contemporary China and the West”, a Major Research Project of the Ministry of Education.) Approval no. 04JZD0036, 2004-2007
7. A Study of the “Moderation/Harmony” Concept in Aesthetic Education in Ancient/Traditional China. A Major Project of the Ministry of Education's Key Humanities and Social SciencesResearch Base. 2006-2009. Principal bidder. Amount of grant: 200,000 yuan
8. The Theoretical Construction and Practical Application of Western Ecological Aesthetics. AGeneral Project of The National Foundation for the Social Sciences. Approval no. 08BZW013.June 2008-June 2012. Supervisor. Amount of grant: 90,000 yuan
9. Project name: Special funding from Cheng Xiangzhan Postdoctoral Fund. Project code: 10000058311702. 2008-2011.Funding amount: 100,000 yuan
10. Environmental Aesthetics and the Transformation of Aesthetics. AMajor Project of the Ministry of Education’s Key Humanities and Social Sciences Research Base. Approval no. 11JJD750014.September 2011-September 2014. Responsible for Research Topic of the Project. Project budget: 200,000 yuan. Actual subsidy: 90,000 yuan
11. The Fundamental Essential Points of Ecological Aesthetics and Research in Ecological Aesthetic Education. A Key Project of the National Foundation for the Social Sciences.Approval no. 13AZW004.June 2013-June 2016. Supervisor of Research Topic of the Project.Project budget: 300,000 yuan. Actual subsidy: 270,000 yuan
12. A General Introduction to Eco-Aesthetics. (Sub-project no. 5 of “The Treatment of and Research in the Documentary Literature of Eco-Aesthetics”, a Major Project of the National Foundation for the Social Sciences, supervised by Professor Zeng Fanren.)Project Approval no. 16ZDA111. Project established: November 16, 2016; Expected Completion: December 2021. Sub-project Supervisor. Total budgeted grant: 800,000 yuan; First allotment of starter funding: 760,000yuan
13. Ecological Aesthetics Research. A Major Project commissioned by the Shandong Provincial Planning Office for the Social Sciences. Project Approval no. 16AWTJ03.December 2016-December 2017. Responsible for Research Topic of the Project. Budget:100,000yuan
14. The Aesthetic Significance of the Concept of the Harmonious Coexistence and Symbiosis Between Humankind and Nature. A Major Project of the Shandong Provincial Planning Office for the Social Sciences.Project Approval no. 17ALJJ07.June 2017-June 2018. Responsible for Research Topic of the Project. Budget:500,000 yuan
Contact information:
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