Arts and Aesthetics, 艺术与美学
楷书四大家：欧阳询、颜真卿、柳公权、赵孟頫 English Calligraphy holds a position in Chinese civilization that has no precise equivalent in any other tradition. It is not merely beautiful handwriting. In China, calligraphy is simultaneously a discipline of character cultivation, a temporal art form whose process…
《奥赛罗》——嫉妒的建筑 English Of Shakespeare’s four great tragedies, Othello is the most domestic and the most claustrophobic. There are no kings here, no courts, no armies in the field. There are two people who love each other, and a third person…
《哈姆雷特》——思想的重量 English Shakespeare wrote Hamlet around 1600. It is the longest of his plays, the most quoted, and the most studied. The reason, perhaps, is that its central question is not specific to any time or place: why does a…
四大音乐传统：中国、西方、印度、阿拉伯 English Every known human society makes music. This universality is real, but the claim that music is a universal language is misleading: different musical systems differ profoundly in scales, rhythms, tonal frameworks, instruments, and aesthetic goals. Four major traditions…